Athletes criticise Covid measures in Beijing Games

Many athletes who arrived in China to participate in Beijing Winter Olympics are criticizing the country’s stringent Covid-19 restrictions.

Some were placed in isolation for weeks after testing positive, while others complained about the bland food served in quarantine, reported CNN.

One Finnish coach said that the measures were a violation of human rights. But for 1.4 billion people across China, the conditions inside the Olympic bubble present something of a microcosm of the country during the pandemic.

China is one of the few places still adhering to a strict zero-Covid approach, whereby snap lockdowns, mass testing, contact tracing and tight border restrictions are deployed in a bid to stamp out all traces of the disease, reported CNN.

New variants and increasingly frequent outbreaks have raised questions about how sustainable this strategy is.

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