Due to the exponential spread of the omicron variant and its appearance in Beijing, almost anyone can buy tickets for the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games that begin in the Chinese capital on February 4. Regardless, there will be spectators at sporting events because some select groups will be able to receive tickets, he writes Reuters.
In Beijing and across China, a strictly zero-Covid directive is being taken ahead of the full Olympics that will begin in the coming weeks, with one coronavirus case shutting down an entire Beijing office building that housed workers at the time. the scale. The building in the western part of the city was closed without warning on Sunday, and residents were not allowed to leave the site and underwent mandatory Covid checks.
Several countries will conduct a diplomatic boycott this year: Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom have joined the United States, so diplomats and officials from the countries concerned will not travel to the Beijing 2022 Olympics, in protest of “China against the Communist Party’s ongoing genocide, its actions against humanity against Muslim minorities and threats against Taiwan” . New Zealand is doing the same.
