Despite increasing concern over the global resurgence of Covid-19 world-wide, the 2022 Olympics in Beijing will be organized as scheduled in February.

Wednesday afternoon, the International Olympic Committee confirmed that the 2022 Olympics are on track and on schedule. 

Due to increasing concern about the held a video conference on Wednesday during which it announced to the various National Olympic Committees that the organizers of the Games Beijing Olympics 2022 were set to host the competition from February 4 to 20.

“The issue of postponement is no longer relevant to all of us. We can now concentrate on our task: creating the best possible conditions for the Swiss delegation during the four weeks between us and the opening ceremony,” explains Ralph Stoeckli, Head of Mission of Swiss Olympic, in a press release. 

During this briefing, the IOC also told delegations that the twelve-day delay between a Covid-19 infection and the authorization to travel to China would be managed more flexibly, a group of international experts now assessing each case individually.