More than 30 new COVID-19 cases are being detected daily ahead of the 2022 Beijing Olympics but organizers say they aren’t worried and expect numbers to drop within days.
Athletes and team officials accounted for nine of the latest cases and 23 were “stakeholders,” a category that includes workers and mediaWith more than 30 new COVID-19 cases being detected daily ahead of the Beijing Olympics, organizers said Wednesday they aren't worried and expect numbers to drop within days.
A total of 32 new cases — 15 in tests of people arriving at the airport and 17 within the Olympic bubbles — were reported by the Beijing organizing committee on Wednesday, two days before the opening ceremony. The average was 31 cases over the past three days. Athletes and team officials accounted for nine of the latest cases and 23 were “stakeholders,” a category that includes workers and media. Athletes testing positive now could miss their events.
Eleven people have been treated at the hospital for a symptom among the 232 positive tests registered since Jan. 23, though “none of those are seriously ill in any way,” Olympic medical advisor Brian McCloskey said. The overall numbers are not worrying for the Olympics, said McCloskey, who is leading the organizers' medical expert panel.
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