Five members of the Canadian delegation, among those who arrived in Beijing for the Winter Olympics (February 4-20), tested positive for Covid-19, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) announced on Friday. “Currently, five of the 246 members of the Team Canada delegation in (Beijing) are subject to COVID-19 protocols“Said the COC in a press release, without specifying whether they are athletes, coaches and supervisors. “We follow the rules of the +Beijing 2022+ Playbooks documents. Part of our strategy was to arrive early to allow time for confirmatory testing and, if necessary, for the Medical Expert Panel process to unfold.“, specifies the COC.
“Many athletes come from countries where the Covid is on the increase. Canadian athlete numbers are expected to reflect the situation in the Canadian population“said Dr. Brian McCloskey, president of the medical council of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Saturday during a press briefing organized in Beijing. “The challenge (of these Olympics) is not not to have positive cases but to control them through the measures taken“, he added. According to figures communicated by the organizing committee of the 2022 Olympics, out of 5,092 tests carried out on athletes or members of delegations, 23 were found to be positive for Covid-19.