China turns Winter Olympics villages into quarantine camps to stamp out new COVID-19 outbreaks, report says

The Yanqing Olympic village in China. Getty Images Villages that housed athletes at the Beijing Winter Games being used as COVID-19 quarantine camps. Hundreds have been sent to Olympic villages after an outbreak in Beijing’s entertainment district. Olympic villages offer ideal infrastructure for quarantine, the Financial Times reported. 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…