15 Covid Cases Found At Winter Olympics
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2022-01-25 HKT 15:05
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The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee said on Tuesday that 15 new positive cases of Covid-19 were detected among games-related personnel on January 24.
Twelve of the confirmed positive cases were among new arrivals.
The other three were found among those already in the closed loop, and of those three, one was an athlete or team official, the notice on the Beijing 2022 official website said.
At the same time, the National Health Commission confirmed five new local Covid-19 infections in Beijing, where mass testing of the Fengtai district was ordered on Sunday.
They were among 18 locally-transmitted cases confirmed on the mainland on Monday.
Six were in Xinjiang, three in Henan, two in Hebei, and one each in Tianjin and Shanghai, according to the health commission.
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