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intelligence which might involve drones, so we might see a pretty high tech ceremony. rick has produced five different olympic opening ceremonies, including la in 1984 in beijing in 2008. we will have a lot more coverage on the winter games as they begin later tonight in beijing notjust on tv, but also on our website as well, on all the geopolitical tensions, human rights abuse allegations and controversies. check them out, as well. following the massive oil spill in peru last month, veterinarians are nursing a number of rare hambuldt penguins back to health. 12,000 barrels of crude oil spilt into a marine biodiversity hotspot after a refinery was hit by waves linked to a volcanic eruption on tonga. zoologists say many of the penguins arrived at lima zoo very stressed. the penguins have been bathed, watered, and fed
confirmed and growing covid case count, both in that olympic bubble, in the so-called closed loop of thousands of athletes and coaches and journalists and organizers, but also outside in the general chinese population in beijing, which is supposed to be walled off from the athletes. there, the chinese authorities are struggling with outbreaks of omicron and of the delta variant, and they re using some extreme measures to try to stamp it out. millions of people having to get tests. if you try to buy cold medicine or fever medicine over the counter in a pharmacy in china, in beijing, you have to take a get a negative covid test and register with the state. for athletes trying to get to beijing, it is incredibly stressful. if you can imagine, brianna, because at least two dozen athletes had to withdraw from last summer s tokyo olympics because they got covid, they
especially marked lanes. officials have told residents if they see one of the vehicles that s part of the olympic c convoys get into a crash to stay away. they ve actually got a specialized unit of medics to respond to those incidents. it s all to keep the virus from potentially spreading. it also helps keep visiting journalists from leaving the capital city to other regions to explore controversial topics. with the world attention, the olympic allows china to showcase its perceived superiority in containing the virus, especially compared with countries like the u.s. but this will be a tale of two cities. one curat for the olympic arrivals and preselected groups of spectators. another that is the real be beijing. though some local beijing residents are now in a bubble of their own, communities locked down after recent cases surfaced in the city outside the olympic boundaries. a mounting challenge for a country that s trying to keep covid out and yet still stage a
china had this strict zero covid approach to covid, to the virus, since it was first discovered two years ago in wuhan. and they successfully kept the numbers down, but now the authorities say they have clusters of both omicron and delta in the general population, in beijing, which is walled off from the olympic bubble. and they re ordering millions of people to get mandatory covid tests to try to stop this. some other unusual measures, they re ordering anybody who buys fever or cough medicine within the past 14 days to show up for a mandatory covid test and if you do buy this medicine over the counter, you re going too have to get a covid test as well and the chinese authorities can track you with this health app that everybody has to use if you don t pass that, then you can t go into restaurants, you can t go into public spaces, you can t travel for the upcoming chinese lunar new year, one of the biggest holidays of the