BEIJING DIARY: Testing positive at the no-COVID Olympics

BEIJING DIARY: Testing positive at the no-COVID Olympics

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BEIJING (AP) — The phone call comes in the early afternoon, six hours or so after the mandatory morning test. The number is immediately recognizable because it's so strange: a U.S. dialing code when the Chinese health official on the line is, in fact, calling from Beijing and bearing bad news.

“Sorry to bother,” he says.

BEIJING DIARY: Testing positive at the no-COVID Olympics

Feb 9, 2022, 11:40am UTC
https://apnews.com/4fe413019f0ee0abcfa3a1d9a172d97f > BEIJING (AP) — The phone call comes in the early afternoon, six hours or so after the mandatory morning test. The number is immediately recognizable because it's so strange: a U.S. dialing code when the Chinese health official on the line is, in fact, calling from Beijing and bearing bad news. > “Sorry to bother,” he says.