Ahead Of The Winter Olympics, 2 Omicron Cases Found In Tianjin China

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JAKARTA - Two positive cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 were found in Tianjin City, China, thus giving a strong warning to the City of Beijing, which is only three weeks away from holding the opening of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The mass testing of residents living at the main gate and a buffer city of Beijing began on Sunday morning at 07.00 local time (06.00 WIB) after 20 new cases were found, two of them Omicron.

Mass PCR testing is expected to last for 24 hours until Monday.

At least 29 residential areas in Jinnan District and Nankai District were completely locked down (lockdown) after two cases were found in local residents.

Quoted from Antara, as of Saturday night, as many as 75,680 residents were quarantined.

Of the 70 people who were tested by PCR in one settlement, 14 of them were positive, even two positive people were detected on the escalator of the apartment where they lived.

Two Tianjin metro lines, number 1 and number 6 respectively, stopped operating on Sunday.

Tianjin Binhai International Airport canceled 144 flights a day, Chinese media said.

Beijing together with Zhangjiakou will host the Winter Olympic and Paralympic matches starting February 4.

This mass PCR test is a concrete measure of Tianjin's full responsibility as Beijing's main gateway in dealing with the rapid transmission of the latest variant, as the result of a meeting held by the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Tianjin Committee and Tianjin Mayor Liao Guoxun on Saturday night.