Mary Wilson
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19 Jun (2022)
Alia Shoaib
China has turned the Olympic villages built to house athletes during the Beijing Winter Games into Covid-19 quarantine camps, the Financial Times reported.
In February about 2,900 foreign athletes were housed in the "closed-looped" compounds that are sealed off from the rest of Beijing.
Now, the three Olympic villages, with their "bubble infrastructure," are proving to be ideal locations to isolate those possibly infected with the virus, per the FT.
... Last month local authorities bussed hundreds of people who were close contacts of Covid-19 cases to the Olympic Village in Chongli after Beijing's most populous district ran out of beds in quarantine facilities, the FT reported.
Sean, a Beijing resident in his 20s, told the paper he was sent to the village there after a tracking system found he had been to a convenience store also visited by someone with Covid-19.
"I quarantined at home for six days, then they took me here. I think I'll need to stay here for seven days, but no one has told me any details," he said.
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/c...olympic-villages-covid-isolation-camps-2022-6
Alia Shoaib
China has turned the Olympic villages built to house athletes during the Beijing Winter Games into Covid-19 quarantine camps, the Financial Times reported.
In February about 2,900 foreign athletes were housed in the "closed-looped" compounds that are sealed off from the rest of Beijing.
Now, the three Olympic villages, with their "bubble infrastructure," are proving to be ideal locations to isolate those possibly infected with the virus, per the FT.
... Last month local authorities bussed hundreds of people who were close contacts of Covid-19 cases to the Olympic Village in Chongli after Beijing's most populous district ran out of beds in quarantine facilities, the FT reported.
Sean, a Beijing resident in his 20s, told the paper he was sent to the village there after a tracking system found he had been to a convenience store also visited by someone with Covid-19.
"I quarantined at home for six days, then they took me here. I think I'll need to stay here for seven days, but no one has told me any details," he said.
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/c...olympic-villages-covid-isolation-camps-2022-6