BEIJING: China is sealing the Beijing Olympics inside an impenetrable giant bubble cocooning thousands of people and stretching nearly 200 kilometres in an effort to thwart the coronavirus.
AFP takes you inside the bubble for the Feb 4-20 Winter Games:
What is the ‘closed loop’?
China, where the virus emerged towards the end of 2019, hopes to deliver a “simple, safe and splendid” Games in keeping with the country’s strict zero-Covid strategy.
To limit the spread of infection, athletes, support staff, volunteers and media will be in a so-called “closed loop” — aka the bubble — for the whole Games.
Rather than sealing off one huge area of the capital, the bubble will in reality be numerous mini bubbles, such as a cordoned-off hotel…
