Medical adviser Brian McCloskey said the goal of the closed loop where the athletes are kept was not to have zero COVID-19 cases but to have zero spread.
The closed-loop system was designed to keep Olympic athletes, sports officials and workers contained in a specific area. The zone prevents the public from entering and participants from leaving to reduce the spread of COVID to the general public.
"Virtually every country in the world at the moment has a higher level of COVID than China," McCloskey said, according to AP. "They won't go down immediately, but when we get to a stable number of people, then we expect it to go down," he said. After a spike in cases in Beijing, millions of residents have been tested several times. Neighborhoods with reported cases have been sealed off to slow the spread instead of implementing a widespread lockdown in the host city, according to AP.
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