Six countries, including Italy and the U.S., have announced testing requirements for passengers from China, as the country continues to be accused of not being forthcoming about the virus.

As freestyle skier Eileen Gu won her gold medal in the big air competition on Tuesday, praise for athlete quite literally overwhelmed Chinese internet. Sina Weibo, the massive social network that is similar to Twitter, found its servers temporarily overloaded.

Most access to a major city adjacent to Beijing was suspended Thursday as the government tried to contain an outbreak of the coronavirus's easily transmitted omicron variant ahead of next month's Winter Olympics in the Chinese capital.