What it's like inside China's Covid-safe high-tech Olympic bubble

Volunteers of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Games stand outside a hotel where members of the media stay. The courtyard of the hotel is surrounded by a green fence to keep journalists within the "closed loop" set up by Chinese authorities and Games organisers in an attempt to keep the 2022 Winter Olympics Covid-free. - AFP

BEIJING (Bloomberg): To wall off nearly 22 million Beijing residents from the risks of Covid-19 that Winter Olympics athletes may bring with them, China has built a city within a city where no one can interact with those living outside, but where there is unrestricted internet access and meals served by robots.

Over the course of two months, tens of thousands of athletes and support personnel are expected to enter the bubble for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which spans parts of central Beijing, the capital’s outer Yanqing district and Zhangjiakou city in neighboring Hebei province. They’ll move around in the "closed-loop” system between competition venues, hotels and even bars connected by a dedicated transportation network.