Symptom-free in the isolation hotel
First Corona case in the German team in Beijing
2/2/2022 3:41 p.m
Nolan Seegert is the first German athlete to have to go to the isolation hotel at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The figure skater tested positive for the corona virus, but according to the association he is symptom-free. What that means for his start and partner Minerva Hase is open.
Figure skater Nolan Seegert was the first German athlete to test positive for the corona virus at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The 29-year-old pair runner is in an isolation hotel and is symptom-free, the German Olympic Sports Confederation announced. A few days earlier, a German supervisor in the Zhangjiakou mountain region had already been diagnosed with a corona infection.
There is also a confirmed case of contact in the figure skating team. Seegert already wanted to start with his sporting partner Minerva Hase in the couples’ short program in the team event on Friday. In addition, Seegert and Hase are registered for the pair skating competition on February 18th and 19th. You had prepared for the Olympics in Russia.
Anyone who contracted the virus at the Beijing Olympics will be isolated in a specially designated hotel. Only after two negative PCR tests at least 24 hours apart can those affected leave before the end of ten days. After this period, only a negative PCR test is required.
“We said before that we would have difficulties, that the difficulty would be to let the athletes from Germany fly to Beijing without a virus. We actually have a very small problem here thanks to the perfect protective measures taken by the individual associations,” said Chef de Mission Dirk Schimmelpfennig said before and referred to the two cases so far. “We had expected that. All in all, one has to say that the balance sheet with a lot of people who arrive negative, who remain negative after one, two, three days and therefore have a huge chance of being virus-free in the bladder, is very gratifying.”
The Olympic makers gave the total number of positive tests as 232 on Wednesday. Of these, 136 infections were found during controls at the airport, 96 within the so-called closed circuit for all those involved in the Olympics.