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Newsday: 03/02/2022 06:06 GMT : Organisers downplay Covid fears at Winter Olympics

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03/02/2022 06:06 GMT : Organisers downplay Covid fears at Winter Olympics

Organisers downplay Covid fears at Winter Olympics

BBC World Service - Newsday, Organisers downplay Covid fears at Winter Olympics

‘None of those hospitalised are seriously ill’ say organisers

Organisers have also downplayed concerns that the virus is spreading within the ‘closed-looped’ system in Beijing

On the Eve of the start of the Winter Olympics in China, President Xi Jinping addressed the nation promising a splendid games but it's under a cloud as there's been an outbreak of Covid.

The US and other NATO allies have sent thousands of troops to the Ukrainian side of the border with Russia to counter any looming threat of attack but those in Kiev say the build-up of troops in Belarus is a worrying development.

And the World Health Organisation has expressed fears of a crisis in cancer care because of the Covid pandemic.

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