Beijing Initiates ‘Olympic Bubble' Measures for Pandemic Control

Beijing's so-called "Closed Loop" or "Bubble" measures for the Winter Olympics are now in full swing.

On Jan. 9, Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued a notice urging "Beijing residents not to go to Tianjin unless it is necessary, and Tianjin residents do not come to Beijing unless it is necessary."

Officials at the Yingsi checkpoint on the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway told the state-run Beijing News that they had turned back many people and vehicles entering Beijing over the past two days.

In October 2021, Beijing issued a clear order banning entry into Beijing of the so-called "Four categories of people," including "People in the county with one or more local COVID infection(s) and those with travel history in that county within 14 days".

In other words, as long as there is a confirmed positive case of COVID-19 in a county, everyone from that county is not allowed to enter Beijing, including Beijing residents who stayed there within 14 days.

Henan is a major transportation route into Beijing and currently all passengers traveling by train through the province will not be allowed to enter Beijing.

With the 2022 Winter Olympics set to kick off in Beijing on Feb. 4, the CCP hopes to demonstrate its "Institutional confidence" to the world with its anti-epidemic measures.

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