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Beijing i'll be part of this massive bubble which is being called a closed loop system. there's even special transportation to go between the venues and even who arrives at these games unvaccinated will have to quarantine for 21 days, and get this, ana. for the local staff and volunteers in china at the games, they have to quarantine for 21 days before exiting this closed loop system and going back to their families. beijing right now is on extremely high alert after detecting its first omicron case. this is a country where even one covid case is one too many, and we're seeing several cities a...

72 hours before departure. then daily tests in beijing. organizers are relying on sensitive. that cr tests which mean recently recovered but healthy athletes could potentially be isolated or barred from competing. >> they've gone to the public health extreme. that test is so sensitive. it is picking up remnants of the virus. you are not contagious to anyone else. >> organizers are not taking any chances. the host country is sticking to its zero covid policy where just one case can trigger lockdowns and mass testing. during the tokyo summer olympics here, 41 athletes test told positive for covi...

Matter. bach in beijing is expected to meet with peng soon. the olympic bubble is holding the athletes, the person pell and incoming media kept separate from the rest of china. this as the number of new covid-19 cases continues to rise and spread across the mainland. >> china facing a renewed challenge to halt this latest surge. snap lockdowns, mass testing and contact tracing and all a bit stepped up as the country works to show its superiority in containing the virus. state media continuing to label the virus as an imported threat, even dating back to the initial outbreak in wuhan, a consist...

To continue mass testing. what we then do is we piv the a pivot and do testing on people we're actually going to do an intervention on. for example, i'm going to admit you to the hospital. i'm going to potentially give you a therapy. those are the ones we do testing on. but the rest of the people who develop symptom influenza, we tell them to isolate and give them a time to isolate. if they don't get sicker, we actually give them the test. that's the move we need to make, the pivot we need to make with covid as well. we direct the test that is needed. use the tests for public health purposes w...

For medical treatment has surged. therefore, to separate general patients and patients suspected of being infected with covid—19, we've set up some divergent areas and some outdoor places and set up some tents to treat covid patients. hong kong is still pursuing a zero—covid policy, but without the strict mass testing and lockdowns seen in mainland china. despite that, more than 4000 new cases have been confirmed in the past 2a hours. that's a0 times the number at the beginning of the month. officials say nine people have died from the virus in the past day, including a three—year—old ...