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Beijing Winter Olympics: athletes’ rubbish to stay inside Games bubble to stop coronavirus spread
- Organisers to deploy team to prevent infection from garbage into the outside world
- Waste will be held at temporary storage sites and transferred later for central processing
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Beijing Winter Olympics organisers say measures to prevent cross-infections between athletes and the outside world are being extended to holding their rubbish inside the Games “bubble”.
Officials said on Thursday that a team of special workers would be deployed to collect and transfer garbage inside the bubble to prevent the risk of coronavirus leaking out into the outside world. The event begins on February 4.
Ma Boyang, who is in charge of Olympic village planning and operations, said the waste would be held at temporary storage sites, to be transferred later for central processing.
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China has stressed the possibility of the virus being transmitted on inanimate objects, particularly frozen food.
Most experts have ruled out the possibility of infection through such channels, saying packaging carries only minute traces of virus, most likely deposited there by workers.
With the spread of the Omicron variant, concerns have again turned to preventing infections among athletes that could lead to quarantines for as long as five weeks.
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