On November 18, Zhao Weidong, director of the Press and Propaganda Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, stated at the press conference that two cases of foreign athletes with positive nucleic acid tests and cases of asymptomatic infections had been discovered before.
On November 16, the Epidemic Prevention and Control Office of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee received a report from the Yanqing District Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing. A foreign athlete who came to China to participate in the sled international training week and the sled World Cup tested positive in the daily routine nucleic acid test. People who are identified as asymptomatic infection.
The athlete has been transferred to an isolation facility for medical observation in accordance with the relevant requirements of the "Epidemic Prevention Manual".
It is understood that this foreign athlete is one of the close contacts of a previously confirmed asymptomatic infection.
Zhao Weidong said that the current Winter Olympics test competition process is more than halfway, and various epidemic prevention measures and arrangements have been fully tested and proved by passing the test competition.
We are fully confident that we will successfully host the test competition, and we are also fully confident that we will successfully host the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Winter Games.
(Reporter Lang Jiahui and Chen Hang produced Li Jiali)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]