Lessons learned from the COVID-19 control strategy of the XXXII Tokyo Summer Olympics and the XXIV Beijing Winter Olympics

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused more than 500 million infections and 6.2 million deaths globally, resulting in numerous sporting events being cancelled or postponed. Therefore, effective control strategies are urgently needed to prevent COVID-19 transmission at these local and global events. This article introduced the strategies utilized at the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics and proposed several measures for future reference.

KEYWORDS:

• COVID-19
• Olympics
• prevention
• control
• strategy

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge Shanghai Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Biosafety Emergency Response [grant number 20dz2260100] and Key Discipline Construction Plan from Shanghai Municipal Health Commission [GWV-10.1-XK01].

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 82041010, 92169212 and 82161138018].