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First COVID-19 case reported in Beijing Olympics team
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First COVID-19 case reported in Beijing Olympics team

| @indiablooms | 25 Jan 2022, 06:18 pm

Beijing: Beijing Winter Olympics Games organizers have reported the first coronavirus case among national team members that entered China on Sunday, media reports said on Tuesday.

The organizing committee said on Monday that the case was identified from PCR tests of 529 Olympic-related people at an airport in Beijing the previous day, reports NHK World Japan.

However, details about the team or the athlete are still not known.

The committee revealed that three people who were not members of a team also tested positive at the airport, reports NHK World Japan.

The committee also said that more than 38,000 tests were conducted on Sunday inside the so-called bubble separating Games-related personnel from the public. Two infections were confirmed from among those tests,the news channel reported.

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