in Beijing, a drastic health protocol

As soon as you arrive on Chinese soil, the fight against the Covid appears everywhere. Especially when you see these white silhouettes from head to toe, which seem to have come out of a science fiction film. This suit is worn by all airport personnel. For the athletes, the delegations and the journalists, it is the beginning of an obstacle course.

“To be able to enter the sanitary bubble, you must have two negative PCR tests and have had your temperature taken during the 15 days preceding departure. Once on Chinese soil, you now need an oral PCR test and a nasal PCR test“, details the journalist who arrived on the spot, Josselin Debraux. Prohibition, moreover, of filming the protocol. There remains the wait, stressful for the athletes, for the results, which will arrive in the next few hours.