Organisers of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have slightly relaxed their famously strict COVID-19 measures for participants in next month's Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Monday.
The changes, which take immediate effect, include easing the threshold for being designated positive for COVID-19 from PCR tests, and reducing to seven days from 14 the period for which a person is deemed a close contact.
Some team officials had expressed a fear that Beijing's stricter tests could block some athletes, including those who have recovered from COVID-19, from participating. Beijing 2022 organisers had previously used the more sensitive CT of 40 as a threshold for designating those positive, the Games' medical chief, Brian McCloskey, said on Sunday.
Those with a CT below 35, and therefore, positive, will be able to leave designated isolation facilities and return to their original Games-time accommodation and the closed loop if they are not showing any COVID-19 symptoms and the CT value stays at 35 or more for three consecutive days.
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