(CNN)South Korea has deployed 900 military personnel after 1,200 security guards were pulled from duty following an norovirus outbreak at Winter Olympic facilities in Pyeongchang.
Organizers
said 41 security guards had suffered a sudden onset of vomiting and
diarrhea on Sunday and had been taken to hospital. The outbreak comes
just days before the opening of South Korea's 2018 Winter Olympics on
Thursday.
To prevent the
spread of the disease, the other guards were withdrawn and replaced
with 900 military personnel as of Monday afternoon, a statement from the
Pyeongchang Olympics committee said.
"The
military personnel ... will be responsible for security checks of the
20 venues as they take up jobs such as security searches, previously
done by civilian safety personnel, until the patients' condition is
normalized," the statement said.
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While the specter of a nuclear war with North Korea has faded in recent weeks, China is not taking chances, and ahead of the Winter Olympics in South Korea, the Chinese government has deployed 300,000 troops and multiple mobile strike groups to its highly-guarded border with North Korea, a move which signals that Beijing is quietly gearing for a potential crisis between Kim Jong Un and the United States in the coming months.
The reported deployment comes just days before the start of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea.
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