Here is how from February 4 the Winter Games will be the test bed for China’s global anti-Covid strategies in the country where the pandemic originated
ROME. Waiting to know if there will be the hypothesized diplomatic boycott of the United States, the organizers of Beijing 2020 are involved in the most insidious challenge. Ensure the highest possible anti-Covid security in the country where the pandemic began. The Winter Olympics that open in China on February 4 will be marked by anti-contagion restrictions for athletes and the staff who will have to follow them. Measures that cause concern due to severe limitations. In particular, the “bubbles” in which athletes fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will enter in view of the races, and from which they will come out only at the end of the sporting event in February, are especially discussed.
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For athletes not vaccinated with any of the vaccines approved by the World Health Organization, however, participation in the Games is linked to a 21-day quarantine to which they must undergo before the start of the Winter Olympic Games, according to the rules presented to the Committee. International Olympic by the organizers. The “bubbles” will be in effect from 13 January until the end of the Paralympics, on 13 March, and will cover all areas of the Games (which take place in the Chinese capital, in Yanqing, and in the city of Zhangjiajie). The closed management covers all aspects of the stay in Beijing, from arrival at the airport to transport and hotels, and obviously the competitions and opening and closing ceremonies, up to the departure. Those who do not comply with the rules for containing the virus could face “serious consequences”, warned the deputy mayor of Beijing, Zhang Jiandong, one hundred days before the official start: among these, he listed simple warnings, but also temporary disqualifications or permanent from matches and expulsions.
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The restrictions also affect spectators. Tickets for the events will only be sold to Chinese residents who meet the anti-pandemic requirements. Beijing aims to have “simple, safe and exciting” Olympics, even if the Games still face the risk of a boycott, at least diplomatic, which even the White House is thinking about, as declared yesterday by officials of Joe Biden’s administration quoted by CNN , after the summit with the Chinese president, during which the event to be held between 4 and 20 February was not discussed. Particular uncertainty exists about restrictions for printing. The “Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China”, the association not recognized by the Chinese government that brings together foreign journalists in China, said it was concerned about the lack of transparency and clarity regarding the conditions of journalistic activity during the Winter Games . And the club has already encountered “continuous hindrances” to its members in covering preparations for the event that will open in less than three months in the Chinese capital.
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