MOSCOW, January 23, by Sergei Yaremenko. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is not aims to completely eliminate cases of coronavirus inside the «bubble» during the Beijing Olympics, it is more important to exclude cases of infection transmission to the local population, said Brian McCloskey, chairman of the IOC medical expert group. The Winter Olympic Games will be held in Beijing from February 4 to 20. All participants in the Olympiad will live and compete in a «bubble» without the opportunity to enter the city and intersect with the local population. The organizing committee of the Olympics previously reported that among those who arrived at the Olympics in China since January 4, 39 cases of coronavirus infection have been detected. «We do not have a goal of achieving zero cases of coronavirus inside the bubble. Our goal is zero cases of transmission of infection to the local population. We separate the participants of the Olympics from the people China for this very reason, to protect the local people,» McCloskey said at a press conference.
