The IOC announced a possible tightening of anti-COVID measures at the Games in Beijing

Beijing, Feb 2, Sergey Yaremenko. The organizers of the Beijing Winter Games are ready to go on tougher anti-coronavirus measures in the event of a worsening epidemiological situation, Brian McCloskey, chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) expert medical group, said at a press conference. Every day in China, new cases of COVID-19 infection are recorded among the participants of the Olympics. The infrastructure of the Games is located within the boundaries of a special “bubble”, which is strictly forbidden to leave.” We have not set thresholds (cases of coronavirus) at which the Olympics can be canceled. Based on past experience, we have seen that there is no need for this. exclude all cases of infection, but exclude the spread of infection outside the bubble. If necessary, we will simply introduce more stringent measures,» McCloskey said. «Today, 32 new confirmed cases: 15 at the airport, 17 inside the bubble. Almost «every country in the world is now experiencing an increase in the incidence. People come to China, where the situation is calmer. You must follow all the rules, but the risk of infection in all countries is high, unlike Beijing,» McCloskey added. decreases because we take all measures.However, the first few days the risk is still great.After four or five days inside the circuit, the risk of infection, in our opinion, becomes low. We hope that the Games will be held in an absolutely safe environment. We hope that soon the number of infected people inside the «bubble» will decrease. Maybe not in the next couple of days, because people from other countries continue to arrive, but in the future we hope for a decrease,» the speaker concluded.