Cases of COVID-19 at the 2022 Winter Olympics and the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China, is a cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infections within the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China that began in the Beijing 2022 Olympic Village in January 2022, prior to the Opening Ceremony of the games on 4 February 2022.
There were 437 total coronavirus cases detected and reported by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games since 23 January 2022.
As a result, Beijing will also be the first city to host both the Summer and the Winter Games for the Olympics and Paralympics.
[5] Despite the strict COVID-19 containment efforts including bubbles[6] and claims of being the safest sporting event,[7] the Beijing Winter Olympics reported only 27 fewer cases than the similar scale event during the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, which had less stringent COVID-19 containment measures.
[8] The rest of the 266 cases were detected from airport testing of the games related arrivals.