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Countdown to 20 days! For the Winter Olympics, is Beijing, the "city of the Two Olympics", ready?

Health Times Qi Yu Qiu Yue

With 20 days to go before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4, as a "city of two Olympic Games", Beijing has made full preparations in terms of transportation, management and security in order to welcome the Winter Olympics.

Resistant to high temperature and extreme cold, 1200 "black technology" torches were passed on the 2nd

The Beijing Winter Olympic Torch "Flying" will be passed in three divisions from February 2 to 4. The first batch of 1200 "Flying" is about to be assembled and depart for Beijing.

It is reported that the material of "Feiyang" pioneered the use of "carbon fiber", not only fire resistance and high temperature resistance, but also resistance to 10 winds and rainstorms, used in extremely cold weather, the use of carbon fiber composite materials to make the Olympic torch is the world's first. In the production workshop, these black tows processed from petroleum products contain 12,000 carbon fiber filaments.

Countdown to 20 days! For the Winter Olympics, is Beijing, the "city of the Two Olympics", ready?

The torch "flies", the picture is from Xinhua News Agency

Advocate flexible working systems and guide green travel

On January 14, the Information Office of the Beijing Municipal Government held a press conference to introduce the temporary management measures for social transportation during the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. At the meeting, the Beijing Municipal Transportation Department advocated that all units in the city adopt flexible working systems such as home work, remote work, and staggered commuting, while guiding green travel, giving priority to public transportation, complying with the olympic lane management regulations, and courtesy of Olympic guarantee vehicles.

All Olympic-related personnel enter closed-loop management

On December 23, 2021, the State Council held a press conference, and Han Zirong, full-time vice chairman and secretary general of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, introduced that all Olympic-related personnel need to complete the full vaccination at least 14 days before coming to China to be exempted from centralized isolation and enter closed-loop management. It is especially recommended that all people involved in Austria be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine booster.

Olympic-related personnel coming to China within the closed loop and staff directly serving foreign parties in China are required to conduct daily health monitoring and nucleic acid testing, and are only allowed to travel to and from designated places by special vehicles for the Winter Olympics, and must not have contact with people outside the closed loop. Those involved in the Olympics should minimize social activities.

18 designated hospitals have set up special areas to treat related patients in a closed loop

CCTV News reported on January 15 that in order to do a good job in the medical protection of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Beijing Health Commission arranged for 18 designated hospitals to set up special areas for the winter Olympics to admit and treat patients within the closed loop of the Winter Olympics. At present, the Winter Olympic zones of these hospitals are already in place to operate.

In addition to the Special Areas for the Winter Olympics of 18 designated hospitals, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission has also arranged 17 hospitals as winter Olympic venue support hospitals, set up 88 medical stations and 74 ambulances in the venues, including 54 negative pressure ambulances, and selected 1300 medical backbones to participate in the medical security of the venues. Two comprehensive clinics were built in Beijing Winter Olympic Village and Yanqing Winter Olympic Village, and 18 departments were set up to meet the needs of basic outpatient clinics and 24 hours a day during the game. In addition, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission has also established a unified dispatch and command mechanism for emergency transport during the race, and blood supply.

The single-day nucleic acid test in Zhangjiakou can reach 50,000 people

During the Winter Olympics, Zhangjiakou will compete in 2 major events (skiing and biathlon) and 6 sub-events (snowboarding, freestyle skiing, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic biathlon, biathlon and 50 minor events).

Countdown to 20 days! For the Winter Olympics, is Beijing, the "city of the Two Olympics", ready?

Zhangjiakou nucleic acid testing can reach 50,000 people in a single day

The Winter Olympic Organizing Committee has set up sampling points in the Olympic Village, contracted hotels, centralized stations and some venues, and personnel in the closed loop are required to undergo daily throat swab tests. At present, the nucleic acid testing laboratory in Zhangjiakou Division has begun to operate, and the entire laboratory is composed of five square cabins, which are divided into four areas: reagent preparation area, dispensing transfer room, automatic extraction room and pathogen amplification room.

According to the relevant person in charge, the Hebei Provincial Health Commission mobilized 300 medical personnel in various cities in the province to zhangjiakou division, and the laboratory was equipped with 34 sets of automatic nucleic acid extraction instruments, 60 sets of nucleic acid amplification instruments and other support equipment. Among them, the automatic nucleic acid extraction instrument can extract 32 samples in 9 minutes, 96 samples in 12 minutes, and the detection limit of amplification reagent is as low as 200 copies/mL, which can fully ensure the detection efficiency and accuracy of nucleic acid detection. Laboratory nucleic acid test throughput can reach up to 50,000 copies in a single day.

Countdown to 20 days! For the Winter Olympics, is Beijing, the "city of the Two Olympics", ready?

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