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With nearly 70,000 people inside Beijing’s “closed loop” taking Covid tests every day, not a single case was detected on Wednesday, the first day of the Games that was entirely free of new cases.
It was the clearest sign yet that the mammoth efforts to prevent an Omicron outbreak among foreign visitors had been successful, with three days remaining until the closing ceremony. China has gone to great lengths to prevent athletes and visitors from mixing with the general population and has placed stringent requirements on entry to the country.
So far, at least 507 people with Olympic credentials, including 183 athletes and team officials, have tested positive for the coronavirus in China, either at the airport on arrival in China or within the Olympics “closed loop.” People within that system are tested daily, accounting for more than 60,000 Covid tests each day.
Positive tests in Olympic “loop”
Positive tests at airport
Date
Name
Sport
Country
Place Tested
Feb. 10
Britta Curl
Ice hockey
United States
Before arriving
Feb. 7
Jussi Olkinuora
Ice hockey
Finland
In China
Vincent Zhou
Figure skating
United States
In China
Feb. 5
Marko Anttila
Ice hockey
Finland
In China
Feb. 4
Katie Tannenbaum
Skeleton
U.S. Virgin Islands
In China
Feb. 3
Casey Dawson
Speedskating
United States
Before arriving
Cestmir Kozisek
Ski jumping
Czech Republic
In China
David Krejci
Ice hockey
Czech Republic
In China
Keegan Messing
Figure skating
Canada
Before arriving
Viktor Polasek
Ski jumping
Czech Republic
In China
Jarl Magnus Riiber
Nordic combined
Norway
In China
Ivan Shmuratko
Figure skating
Ukraine
In China
Feb. 2
Matthias Asperup
Ice hockey
Denmark
In China
Olena Bilosiuk
Biathlon
Ukraine
In China
Kim Meylemans
Skeleton
Belgium
In China
Nick Olesen
Ice hockey
Denmark
In China
Nolan Seegert
Figure skating
Germany
In China
Feb. 1
Elana Meyers Taylor
Bobsled
United States
In China
Jan. 31
Audrey King
Alpine skiing
Hong Kong
In China
Jan. 29
Tahli Gill
Curling
Australia
In China
Marita Kramer
Ski jumping
Austria
Before arriving
Jan. 28
Natalia Czerwonka
Speedskating
Poland
In China
Magdalena Czyszczon
Speedskating
Poland
In China
Marek Kania
Speedskating
Poland
In China
Zan Kosir
Snowboard
Slovenia
In China
Jan. 26
Anne Kjersti Kalva
Cross-country skiing
Norway
Before arriving
Vasily Kondratenko
Bobsled
Russian Olympic Committee
Before arriving
Sinja Leemann
Ice hockey
Switzerland
Before arriving
Alina Müller
Ice hockey
Switzerland
Before arriving
Aleksei Pushkarev
Bobsled
Russian Olympic Committee
Before arriving
Heidi Weng
Cross-country skiing
Norway
Before arriving
Josh Williamson
Bobsled
United States
Before arriving
Jan. 25
Mikhail Kolyada
Figure skating
Russian Olympic Committee
Before arriving
Nikita Tregubov
Skeleton
Russian Olympic Committee
Before arriving
Adam Vaclavik
Biathlon
Czech Republic
Before arriving
Alex Varnyu
Short-track speedskating
Hungary
Before arriving
Jan. 24
Shaoang Liu
Short-track speedskating
Hungary
Before arriving
Jan. 22
Andreas Wellinger
Ski Jumping
Germany
Before arriving
Jan. 7
Alysa Liu
Figure skating
United States
Before arriving
Shaun White
Snowboard
United States
Before arriving
Dec. 27
Mikaela Shiffrin
Alpine skiing
United States
Before arriving
Dec. 20
Alice Robinson
Alpine skiing
New Zealand
Before arriving
Sources: 2022 Beijing Organizing Committee and staff reports
By John Yoon and Albert Sun
Upon arrival, all visitors — a group that includes athletes, team officials and journalists — are required to undergo polymerase chain reaction tests and isolate in hotel rooms until results come back a few hours later. Those who test negative are allowed to move freely within the Games’ so-called closed-loop system, which restricts athletes and others involved with the Olympics to designated hotels and venues.
All Olympic attendees undergo a P.C.R. test each day. On Wednesday, all 68,970 people inside the loop tested negative, as did the seven people who arrived at the airport.
The pace of positive tests had slowed to a trickle this week, with two on Tuesday and one on Monday. Those who test positive but do not require medical treatment must isolate in hotel rooms until they register two negative tests.
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