The COVID-19 situation at the Beijing Winter Olympics is within the “expected controllable range”, despite increasing positive cases being detected, a senior official at China’s Olympics Pandemic Prevention and Control Office said on Tuesday. The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has reported 200 COVID cases since Jan. 23 among airport arrivals and those in the Games “closed-loop” bubble that separates all event personnel, including athletes, from the public. “As more people are entering China the imported COVID-19 cases are increasing,” said Huang Chun, deputy director-general of the committee’s Pandemic Prevention and Control Office at a press briefing. Huang said rising cases were also a result of more effective and accurate COVID detection techniques by customs. Games organizers reported a total of 24 new COVID cases among Games-related personnel on Jan. 31, of which 16 were athletes. Many athletes have been shut […]