The Beijing Olympics organizers announced - on Wednesday - the presence of 5 new cases of coronavirus related to the participants in the Winter Games.
Among the newly infected are 3 athletes or team members.
The cases were discovered after 70,000 tests were carried out to detect the Corona virus on Tuesday.
It is noteworthy that all the participants, starting with athletes, members of expeditions and journalists, live in a health bubble completely separated from the Chinese people.
In order to identify the infected as quickly as possible, each participant in the health bubble must undergo a daily examination.
And the new infections raised the total number of people infected with the Corona virus in the Beijing Winter Games to 398 since January 23.
Each athlete or person who discovers his infection is isolated for an average of 7 days.
It is noteworthy that more than 12,800 people came from outside China to attend or participate in the Olympics.