China’s Olympic organizers say they are not changing their preparations for the Winter Olympics just over three weeks away as the omicron variant ripples across parts of the country.

"Unless there are large-scale cases in the competition zones, we don’t plan to adjust the COVID-19 countermeasures yet,” Huang Chun, a top virus-control official on the Chinese committee organizing the event, said during a Tuesday briefing in Beijing.

That could change if the situation warrants it, said Huang, who added that Olympic organizers will stick to a "strict implementation” of their guidelines for keeping athletes and others virus-free.