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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 they're using some extreme measures to try to stamp it out. millions of people having to get tests. if you try to buy cold medicine or fever medicine over the counter in a pharmacy in china, in beijing, you have to...

Especially marked lanes. officials have told residents if they see one of the vehicles that's part of the olympic c convoys get into a crash to stay away. they've actually got a specialized unit of medics to respond to those incidents. it's 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 containing the virus, especially compared with countries like the u.s. but this will be a tale of...

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 they're ordering millions of people to get mandatory covid tests to try to stop this. some other unusual measures, they're ordering anybody who buys fever or cough medicine within the past 14 days to show up for a mandatory covid test and if you do buy this medicine over th...

Perhaps the screenings are working. >> reporter: laura, that's 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 contagious omicron is. now, most of cnn's colleagues covering these games from within the bubble have now a...

Lack of access facing excellent journalists both inside and outside of the beijing olympic bubble. let's take a look at that piece. >> it is been a long time since there were this many foreign journalists in beijing. but we're stringily controlled under covid rules. i can't just walk out of the hotel. and my driver can't 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 out of the gate. it is really hard to get into kline as a journalist but to cover the olympic ga...