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China has turned the Olympic villages built to house athletes during the Beijing Winter Games into Covid-19 quarantine camps, the Financial Times reported. In February about 2,900 foreign athletes were housed in the “closed-looped” compounds that are sealed off from the rest of Beijing. Now, the three Olympic villages, with their “bubble infrastructure,” are proving to be ideal locations to isolate those possibly infected with the virus, per the FT. Amid a rise in Omicron cases in March and April, China imposed full or partial lockdowns in dozens of cities, including strict measures in Shanghai that were only eased last...
