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Reuters
Reuters
Entertainment
Yiming Woo and Mari Saito

Cocktails and hazmat suits mingle in the Beijing Olympics bubble

A bartender in personal protective equipment (PPE) prepares a cocktail in a hotel for journalists and officials of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, February 3, 2022. REUTERS/Emily Roe

A bartender in the Chinese ski resort of Zhangjiakou wears a blue and white hazmat suit as he pours a cocktail, before passing the drink to a similarly attired waiter who shuffles across the room in blue plastic booties to deliver the drink.

The bar guests at the Nanshanli Condotel on Wednesday evening, most of them Olympics-related personnel and journalists, could see only a sliver of their servers' faces behind white masks and giant plastic face shields.

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