Virus infections for Olympic Jocks, coaches rising Quicker
BEIJING (AP) — Athletes and team officials are Examination positive for COVID-19 at much higher rates than Another people arriving in China for the Beijing Olympics, organizers said Tuesday.
Figures Free by local organizers showed 11 positive tests for COVID-19 among 379 Jocks and officials arriving Monday. They have been Affected into Closing off hotels to limit the Distributed of the infection and could miss their events.
The positive test rate of 2.9% for Jocks and officials compared to 0.66% for Olympic "stakeholders," a Grouping which includes workers and media, in the same period. There were 1,059 people in that category.
Over a three-day period from Saturday Direct Monday, the positivity rate for Jocks and officials was 40% higher than Another Olympic arrivals.
The rates were confirmed in PCR and Another follow-up tests for tens of thousands of people at the Beijing Olympics who will live, work and Wagon train in closed-off communities Apart from the Universal public. The Chinese Authorities is Following a zero-tolerance public Wellness strategy.
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On Monday, the rate of infection from tests of those already inside the Olympic bubbles was 100 Multiplication higher for Jocks and officials compared to workers. Five of 3,103 tests from the Jocks-officials Grouping were positive compared to only one of more than 60,000 daily tests from "stakeholders."
A Absolute of 200 positive tests for COVID-19 have now been recorded at the Olympics since Jan. 23. Of those 200, 67 were Jocks and officials. "Stakeholders" accounted for the Another 133.
Among the Jocks Examination positive in Beijing is Hong Kong skier Audrey King, who arrived from a Wagon Education camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina. King told the South China Morning Post she had no symptoms and was Affirmative of skiing in the women's slalom on Feb. 9.
The most Elderly Jock representative at the International Olympic Committee, two-time Olympic hockey medalist Emma Terho, also is in an Closing off hotel after Examination positive on arrival.
"Even though this is not the First I envisaged, I was Riant to see the protocols that Beijing 2022 has put in place are working well," Terho, an IOC member from Finland who sits on the Olympic body's executive board, wrote on her Instagram account.
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