Businessinsider.co.za | China turns Winter Olympics villages into quarantine camps to stamp out new Covid-19 outbreaks

China has turned the Olympic villages built to house athletes during the Beijing Winter Games into Covid-19 quarantine camps, the Financial Times reported. In February about 2,900 foreign athletes were housed in the "closed-looped" compounds that are sealed off from the rest of Beijing. Now, the three Olympic villages, with their "bubble infrastructure," are proving to be ideal locations to isolate those possibly infected with the virus, per the FT. Amid a rise in Omicron cases in March and April, China imposed full or partial lockdowns in dozens of cities, including strict measures in Shanghai that were only eased last…