The Beijing Winter Olympics (February 4-20, 2022) will be held without foreign spectators and will therefore be reserved for the Chinese public due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Wednesday.
In addition, according to the Olympic body, only fully vaccinated participants will be exempt from quarantine, and will integrate a strict bubble. The others will have to observe 21 days of isolation, except case by case exemption with a “proof of medical exemption”.
These decisions, announced by the IOC but taken by the Chinese organizers, are a foretaste of the package of measures that will be unveiled in October to prevent the Winter Games from turning into the source of contamination, a threat that had already poisoned the world. preparation for the Tokyo Olympics this summer.
As the epidemic situation evolves – marked both by the spread of Covid-19 variants and by increasingly extensive vaccine coverage – the options selected differ from those in Tokyo: the closed door is currently excluded , and the treatment of athletes will depend on their vaccination status.
The Olympic “bubble” – a closed-circuit organization now familiar to the sports world – also promises to be more rigorous than in Japan, will not allow mingling with the population, and provides for a daily Covid test for “all participants. at the Games ”, as well as“ for the workforce ”residing in China.
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