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Precautions in place including the dedicated lanes for cars for olympic personnel and participants which has been up and running friday which covers all stadiums, arenas, venues in order to enter the system. you have to test negative twice before you can fly into beijing and yet covid-19 has found a way to breach the beijing olympic bubble. this only underscores the impossibility of eradicating the virus even in zero covid china. isa. >> explain to us what is happening with u.s. diplomats who se...

Those cases were detected upon entry. so, theyre going to continue to monitor those numbers. i think its fair to say we can continue to see more cases come in, but officials there are determined in saying that there is no widespread infection. there is certainly no outbreak within that olympic bubble. they consider it to be under control. >> and as you point out, i mean, some of these athletes coming from around the world are going to be quite shocked by these strict measures in place. david cul...

There were some pandemic winners that were pandemic trades. we were all at home buying the bike, buying the tread, signing up for streaming services. two years into it youre starting to see a little bit of consumer behavior thats changing a bit. that means some of that, those big gains arent going to be so easy. >> people either going back to the gym or not working out at all. >> right. were two weeks away from the winter olympics and already some covid-19 cases among the guests starting to crop...

Test tens of millions of people. we see entire populations of cities tested in a few days time. the last aspect is contact tracing. thats using smartphone technology, more than anything else, to monitor our whereabouts, to know if weve come in contact with a confirmed case and to follow us really throughout the country if were a potential exposure and possibly transmitting that virus to other people. so, that has been really sophisticated and enhanced over the past several months or so. all of t...

Intelligence which might involve drones, so we might see a pretty high—tech ceremony. rick has produced five different olympic opening ceremonies, including la in 1984 in beijing in 2008. we will have a lot more coverage on the winter games as they begin later tonight in beijing notjust on tv, but also on our website as well, on all the geopolitical tensions, human rights abuse allegations and controversies. check them out, as well. following the massive oil spill in peru last month, veterinar...

Confirmed and growing covid case count, both in that olympic bubble, in the so-called closed loop of thousands of athletes and coaches and journalists and organizers, but also outside in the general chinese population in beijing, which is supposed to be walled off from the athletes. there, the chinese authorities are struggling with outbreaks of omicron and of the delta variant, and theyre using some extreme measures to try to stamp it out. millions of people having to get tests. if you try to b...

Especially marked lanes. officials have told residents if they see one of the vehicles thats part of the olympic c convoys get into a crash to stay away. theyve actually got a specialized unit of medics to respond to those incidents. its all to keep the virus from potentially spreading. it also helps keep visiting journalists from leaving the capital city to other regions to explore controversial topics. with the world attention, the olympic allows china to showcase its perceived superiority in ...

China had this strict zero covid approach to covid, to the virus, since it was first discovered two years ago in wuhan. and they successfully kept the numbers down, but now the authorities say they have clusters of both omicron and delta in the general population, in beijing, which is walled off from the olympic bubble. and theyre ordering millions of people to get mandatory covid tests to try to stop this. some other unusual measures, theyre ordering anybody who buys fever or cough medicine wit...

Perhaps the screenings are working. >> reporter: laura, thats certainly how chinese officials have been characterizing the situation saying the number of positive cases in the so-called olympic bubble accounts for a tiny percentage of all the games participants. with state media adding there is no community spread of the virus in the bubble. the authorities obviously want to keep things that way, but this is an increasingly daunting task with events kicking off, and especially given how contagio...

Lack of access facing excellent journalists both inside and outside of the beijing olympic bubble. lets take a look at that piece. >> it is been a long time since there were this many foreign journalists in beijing. but were stringily controlled under covid rules. i cant just walk out of the hotel. and my driver cant just take me wherever i want to go. we have to stay in our lane, literally. this is the closest we could get to beijing residents. he said the police will take me if i were to walk ...