A total of 353 individuals associated with the Games have tested positive since Jan. 23.
Athletes and officials comprise 25 of the cases, which includes 20 cases that were detected in individuals arriving at the Beijing airport. Five additional cases were detected in PCR tests from people already at the Games.
20 cases were also reported among Olympic-personnel, including 14 individuals who tested positive inside the Olympic bubble. Six other cases were detected at the airport. "Even though the general number is increasing it is within our expectation," said Huang Chun, the Games' deputy director-general of the office of pandemic prevention and control,A total of 353 individuals associated with the Games have tested positive since Jan. 23, both at the airport and in the closed Olympic loop, per Reuters.
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