precautions in place including the dedicated lanes for cars for olympic personnel and participants which has been up and running friday which covers all stadiums, arenas, venues in order to enter the system. you have to test negative twice before you can fly into beijing and yet covid-19 has found a way to breach the beijing olympic bubble. this only underscores the impossibility of eradicating the virus even in zero covid china. isa. explain to us what is happening with u.s. diplomats who seem to be concerned about china s zero covid policy. reporter: very concerned. they say a number of u.s. diplomatic staff and family are concerned about the zero covid policy. they re concerned about the travel concerns but on the
check coveredca.com to see your new lower price. covered california. this way to health insurance. enrollment ends january 31st. welcome back, everyone. well, all eyes are on china this week as the country gears up for two big events in the midst of the pandemic. the lunar new year and the winter olympics. and with just four days to go before the opening ceremony in beijing, china is reporting 37 more infections among olympic personnel. cnn s steven jung joins me now.
international olympic committee s athletes commission has now tested positive for covid-19. this as china just reported 37 more infections among olympic personnel. cnn s steven jang joins me live from beijing with more. i guess if the olympic bubble isn t bursting, it s at least under strain. or was this kind of expected in some way that there was always going to be some infections on the inside? that s the assumption most people have had for quite some time. and now even chinese officials have acknowledged this inevitable reality publicly. now they of course have been expressing that the number of positive cases inside this closed loop is only a tiny minority of all the number of personnel, and also state media reporting that so far there has been no community spread of the covid virus within those bubbles. so obviously they are saying this is a testament to how well and effective their system has been working, and they re determined to keep it that way.
olympics, the athletes, the olympic personnel, the media, they re employing this in what s going to be a surprise to a lot of people. i think folks who are coming in are shocked to see this zero covid strategy and how it s going to play out. yes, they re lowering the threshold a bit but they re still maintaining a very strict policy when it comes to those testing positive, having to be isolated and for a certain period of time, will stay that way until they re deemed safe enough to re-enter the rest of the olympic bubble and participate in any events they re initially part of taking. so it s right now keeping numbering low. you have roughly 3,200 athletes and personnel who have already arrived. after that, more than 70, the total number is 78, who have tested positive. in that group they split it between the 43 who tested positive upon entry because of very strict measures coming in, that s at customs, and the other 33 or 35 have tested positive in the closed-loop system. it s an ongoi
china s human rights abuses. more on that. the current tensions have prompted a new warning from the fbi. cnn s steven jiang is live in beijing. what s this warning? reporter: well, christine, the fbi s urging olympic athletes to leave their personal phones at home and instead bring a burner device to the beijing games citing security concerns. obviously this is not a shocking revelation. before this warning some national committees have been telling their athletes to do this and reminding them of the pervasive high tech surveillance both online and in the real world. for travelers coming to china regularly before the pandemic, this has been known for quite some time. obviously high profile in nature of the olympics has us under a global spotlight. another issue of growing concern is the covid cases inside the so-called closed loop, the olympic bubbles. 32 olympic personnel tested