Beijing Games torch relay confined to closed venues due to COVID


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https://www.oann.com/beijing-games-torch-relay-confined-to-closed-venues-due-to-covid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beijing-games-torch-relay-confined-to-closed-venues-due-to-covid Beijing Communist Party Secretary and President of the Beijing 2022 Organising Committee Cai Qi receives a torch with the Olympic flame at the ceremony to welcome the flame for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing, China October 20, 2021. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo January 21, 2022 BEIJING (Reuters) – The Beijing Winter Olympics torch relay will be cordoned off from the public because of concern about the spread of the coronavirus, organisers said on Friday. The relay involving 1,200 torchbearers will begin on Feb. 2 and wind up just two days later, on Feb. 4, when the Games open...