Disease outbreaks
A young volunteer helps to direct traffic at a junction where a screen is showing an ad for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. The possibility of a large outbreak in the bubble, potentially sidelining athletes from competitions, has been a greater fear than any leakage into the rest of China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Beijing's ambitious Olympic COVID bubble: So far, so good

By Huizhong Wu And Ken Moritsugu Feb. 11, 2022 12:16 AM EST

A woman wearing a face mask to help protect from the coronavirus takes a picture on a street in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. China has ordered inhabitants of the southern city of Baise to stay home and suspended transportation links amid a surge in COVID-19 cases at least partly linked to the omicron variant. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
China locks down southern city as omicron variant surges

Feb. 08, 2022 03:55 AM EST

FILE - Kunlun Red Star's Brandon Yip is shown during a Kontinental Hockey League ice hockey match against Russia club Amur Khabarovsk in Mytishchi, just outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. Host China has finalized its roster for the men's hockey tournament at the Beijing Olympics. The team includes a dozen players from North America. Some like forward Brandon Yip have Chinese ancestry. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
KHL to end season, go directly to playoffs after Olympics

By Stephen Whyno Feb. 05, 2022 10:56 PM EST

A worker prepares to administer a COVID-19 test at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Making Olympics just the start for athletes avoiding COVID

By Jimmy Golen Feb. 03, 2022 02:47 AM EST

FILE - Kim Meylemans, of Belgium, starts during the women's skeleton race at the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, Feb. 11, 2021. Meylemans was permitted to enter one of the Olympic villages early Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, a move that came hours after she tearfully turned to social media and detailed how upset she was about being in isolation over virus concerns. Meylemans tested positive for COVID-19 upon her arrival at the Beijing Olympics, which meant she had to enter isolation and return several negative tests before being cleared to move into the Yanqing Olympic Village. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Olympian moved to village after tearful video in isolation

By Tim Reynolds Feb. 02, 2022 05:50 PM EST

A medical worker collects a sample from a reporter taking part in the Beijing Winter Olympics torch relay activities at a coronavirus test site in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. With more than 30 new COVID-19 cases being detected daily ahead of the Beijing Olympics, organizers said Wednesday they aren't worried and expect numbers to drop within days. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Beijing says COVID-19 situation 'controllable,' 'safe'

Feb. 02, 2022 06:28 AM EST

FILE - In this April 6, 2019 file photo, President of the Italian National Olympic Committee, CONI, Giovanni Malago' gestures as he talks during a winter Olympics Milan Cortina bid IOC Evaluation Commission final news conference, in Milan, Italy. Malagò is one of at least two IOC members who have tested positive for COVID-19 and been placed in isolation at the Beijing Games, as announced Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, file)
Italian Olympic president Malagò tests positive in Beijing

Feb. 02, 2022 05:19 AM EST

Chinese security stand guard outside the National Indoor Stadium ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
6 Danish men's hockey players test positive at Olympics

By Stephen Whyno Feb. 02, 2022 04:10 AM EST

A medical worker enters a hotel room to take a swab sample for a COVID-19 test head of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Olympic advisers at ease with COVID rate, see cases falling

By Graham Dunbar Feb. 02, 2022 02:53 AM EST

Marita Kramer from Austria jumps from the Muhlenkopf hill in the first competition round during the women's large hill, ski jumping World Cup, in Willingen, Germany, Saturday Jan. 29. 2022. (Arne Dedert/dpa via AP)
Ski jumper Marita Kramer ruled out of Olympics with virus

Feb. 01, 2022 08:48 AM EST

A worker prepares to administer a COVID-19 test at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Virus infections for Olympic athletes, coaches rising faster

By Graham Dunbar Feb. 01, 2022 05:54 AM EST

Skeleton medalist out of Beijing Olympics with virus

Jan. 31, 2022 04:52 AM EST
MOSCOW (AP) — Skeleton silver medalist Nikita Tregubov and one of his teammates will miss the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing after contracting the coronavirus...

Workers in protective gear disinfect an Olympic shuttle bus ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Beijing seals off more residential areas, reports 12 cases

By Huizhong Wu Jan. 30, 2022 09:13 AM EST

An ice maker sprays water over a cutout of the Olympic rings while installing a sub-glacial Beijing 2022 logo on the track at the Yanqing National Sliding Center ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Slovenia snowboarder tests positive for virus in Beijing

Jan. 28, 2022 07:03 AM EST

Ottawa Senators' Artem Anisimov, from Russia, during an NHL hockey game, Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Calgary, Canada. Former NHL forward Artem Anisimov is out of isolation after testing negative for the coronavirus and has rejoined the Russian team ahead of the Beijing Olympics, the country’s hockey federation said Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Larry MacDougal)
Ottawa Senators at Calgary Flames 3/7/2021

Jan. 27, 2022 09:20 AM EST

Ottawa Senators' Artem Anisimov, from Russia, during an NHL hockey game, Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Calgary, Canada. Former NHL forward Artem Anisimov is out of isolation after testing negative for the coronavirus and has rejoined the Russian team ahead of the Beijing Olympics, the country’s hockey federation said Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Larry MacDougal)
Virus outbreak spreading in Norway's cross-country ski team

Jan. 27, 2022 07:13 AM EST

Hunter Church of USA and team in action during the Men's 4-Bob World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland,, on Sunday Jan. 16, 2022. (Mayk Wendt/Keystone via AP)
US bobsledder Williamson positive for virus, status unclear

By Tim Reynolds Jan. 26, 2022 04:34 PM EST

Residents wearing face masks to help protect from the coronavirus line up to get a throat swab at a COVID-19 test site outside a residential housing block in Fengtai District in Beijing, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. The Chinese capital reported an uptick more than dozen daily new COVID-19 cases as it began a third round of mass testing of millions of people Wednesday in the run-up to the Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
China's Olympics COVID measures test residents' patience

By Ken Moritsugu Jan. 26, 2022 12:51 AM EST

German hockey players call for league stoppage for Olympics

Jan. 25, 2022 08:50 AM EST
COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Players called on the German hockey league to consider suspending its operations Tuesday because of coronavirus outbreaks, just as its 2018...

Volunteers wearing face masks to help protect from the coronavirus check name lists at a coronavirus testing facility at a school in Fengtai District in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. Chinese authorities have lifted a monthlong lockdown of Xi'an and its 13 million residents as infections subside ahead of the Winter Olympics. Meanwhile, the 2 million residents of one Beijing district are being tested following a series of cases in the capital. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
China tests 2M in Beijing, lifts COVID lockdown in Xi’an

By Ken Moritsugu Jan. 24, 2022 12:31 AM EST