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Zero Means Zero: China Stamps Out COVID at Beijing Winter Olympics

Few thought even China could control the rampant Omicron variant, but hazmat suits, robots, and daily PCR tests have worked.

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FABRICE COFFRINI

By Philippe Naughton

China is celebrating victory in its battle to stamp out COVID-19 at the Beijing Winter Games: Wednesday was the first day without a single positive result from the nearly 70,000 daily PCR tests conducted inside Beijing’s Olympic “loop.” Many feared the arrival of the super-mutated Omicron variant would foil China’s “dynamic zero-COVID strategy” for the Beijing Games, but organizers have showed that masks, food-serving robots, hazmat suits, and lots and lots of isolation—even if it leaves the athletes in tears—really do work.

Read it at The New York Times

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