China Says Omicron Outbreak Isn’t Affecting Olympic Plans Yet
- Organizers pledge they’ll strictly implement virus guidelines
- New virus variant appeared in port near Beijing over weekend
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China’s Olympic organizers say they are not changing their preparations for the Winter Olympics just over three weeks away as the omicron variant ripples across parts of the country.
“Unless there are large-scale cases in the competition zones, we don’t plan to adjust the Covid-19 countermeasures yet,” Huang Chun, a top virus-control official on the Chinese committee organizing the event, said at a briefing Tuesday in Beijing.