The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has said that a total of nine new Covid-19 cases were detected among games-related personnel.

Six of the cases were found among new airport arrivals, according to a notice on the Beijing 2022 official website.

Three others were among those already in the closed-loop bubble that separates all event personnel from the public, and all three were classified as either an athlete or team official, the notice said.