KUWAIT CITY, July 19 — China will host the 2022 Asian Games in autumn 2023, organisers said today, after postponing the event in Hangzhou because of Covid-19. The Games were...
KUWAIT CITY, July 19 — China will host the 2022 Asian Games in autumn 2023, organisers said today, after postponing the event in Hangzhou because of Covid-19.
Hangzhou lies less than 200 kilometres from the country’s biggest city Shanghai, which endured a months-long lockdown earlier this year as part of the ruling Communist Party’s zero-tolerance approach to the virus. China is the last major economy committed to stamping out domestic spread of the virus through harsh lockdowns, mass testing and strict controls on international travel.
Organisers said in April that Hangzhou, a city of 12 million in eastern China, had finished constructing 56 competition venues for the Asian Games and Asian Para Games. Almost all international sport has ground to a halt in China since Covid emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.
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