Beijing Winter Olympics will have shortened torch relay as capital records more Covid-19 cases

The Winter Olympic organisers announced the torch relay would be held within a closed bubble as officials in the Chinese capital warned it faced a “severe” battle against the Delta and Omicron strains of Covid-19.By Friday afternoon the city had reported seven new symptomatic and five asymptomatic local cases.Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, said the capital was now tackling cases from two different sources.“There are clusters…

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