Forty-five new cases of coronavirus were identified among Olympic staff and athletes on Friday alone, the opening of the 24th Winter Olympics in Beijing.
“26 of the newly infected are people who arrived at the airport. Among them are 20 athletes and representatives of Olympic teams. The remaining 19 are in the” closed bubble “in which the staff of the Games is isolated,” the National Health Commission said. Xinhua Agency.
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“Nine new cases of local transmission of Kovid were registered yesterday in mainland China (excluding Hong Kong and Macao) – three less than the day before,” the statement added.
One of them is in the capital Beijing, which hosts the Games.
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Chinese authorities have taken serious steps to curb the spread of the disease ahead of the official start of the Olympics yesterday. Six new covid cases have been reported in Guangdong Province and two in Tianjin City.
The National Health Commission also reported 18 cases brought in from abroad. 129 patients with K-19 were registered as recovered yesterday.
1,571 people remain in Chinese hospitals for treatment. Since the beginning of the pandemic in China, with a population of about 1.4 billion people, just over 106,000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed. The number of deaths in the country has remained unchanged for more than a year – 4636.
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