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BEIJING: Daily COVID-19 infections among athletes and team officials at the Beijing Winter Olympics jumped to 19 on Friday (Jan 29) from two a day earlier, as Games organisers warned of more cases in coming days. Including the athletes and officials, 36 Games-related personnel were found to be infected - 29 when they arrived at the Beijing airport and seven already in the "closed-loop" bubble that separates event personnel from the public, the organising committee said in a statement on Saturday. "We are now just going through the peak period of people arriving in China and therefore we expect to...
