China's meticulous plans to prevent an Olympics-seeded Covid-19 outbreak by sealing all participants inside a “closed loop” for the upcoming Winter Games will be tested by the emergence of the highly infectious Omicron variant.
The country has reported a handful of Omicron cases and has largely succeeded in containing Covid-19 since it first emerged in the central city of Wuhan two years ago, thanks to a zero-tolerance policy that includes rigorous contact tracing, strict targeted lockdowns and travel curbs that have drastically cut international arrivals.
Core to the planning is the rigidly-enforced closed loop that physically separates Games-related personnel from the local population, with overseas participants flying directly into and out of the bubble, which includes dedicated transport. North America's National Hockey League, which has postponed 90 games, announced it will not send its players to the Olympic ice hockey tournament due to Covid-19-induced scheduling problems. The CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee said on Friday he is increasingly concerned whether the Games can go ahead as planned.
“The system is developed so the chances of the Chinese people being exposed to the virus is minimised,” said Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, a US think-tank.
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