Day: September 29, 2021

China Will Create ‘Closed-Loop’ Bubble for Winter Olympics

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The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday released a preliminary set of health protocols for the upcoming Winter Games in Beijing that suggested that the next Olympics, set to start on Feb. 4, could be the most extraordinarily restricted large-scale sporting event since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place in what organizers called a “closed-loop management system,” a bubblelike environment in which athletes, officials, broadcasters, journalists and a large Games work force will be forced to eat, sleep, work and compete, without…

Beijing 2022: Non-vaccinated athletes must serve 21-day quarantine

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Beijing 2022 will be the first Winter Games in be held in China Athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics who are not fully vaccinated against coronavirus will have to serve a 21-day quarantine upon arrival in Beijing. Participants at the Games who are fully vaccinated will enter a “closed-loop management system” when they arrive. Athletes who have a justified medical exemption for the vaccine will have their cases considered. The Winter Olympics run next February, the Paralympics in March. Games organisers said that tickets will be sold “exclusively…

Coal Shortages Force Blackouts Across China

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Advertisement Much of northeast China has been intermittently without power since Sunday as the country comes to grips with a litany of issues, ranging from depleted coal inventories to far-reaching consequences of its national energy policy. Traffic lights and medical clinics in Jilin and Liaoning provinces have been intermittently without power, according to residents’ posts online. Although the problem is most acute in the frigid northeast, blackouts have been occurring in at least 17 provinces nationwide, including Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shandong, Anhui, and Jiangsu. On Sunday evening, one Jilin utility company…