Colombian minister insists Copa will go ahead Bogota (AFP) – The Copa America will be played “with or without fans,” regardless of Covid-19, Colombia’s sports minister said shortly after less optimistic comments from the president of co-host Argentina.
“The Copa America is still as planned from the start: Argentina and Colombia,” Ernesto Lucena told El Tiempo newspaper on Thursday.
“The analysis of the president of Argentina is relevant,” continued Lucena, who is recovering from Covid-19, before saying that the president of CONMEBOL, South American football’s governing body “has repeated: the Copa will be held with or without an audience.”
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Argentina President Alberto Fernandez denounces the scandal surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine. The country s health minister Gines Gonzales Garcia stepped down from his post after reports emerged that he had helped people in the country jump the waiting line to receive the vaccines.
Fernandez said that Garcia was a great minister and that he personally likes him. But what he did was unforgivable, Fernandez was quoted in an Aljazeera report.
Fernandez added that politics is ethical, and they have to end these types of practices, citing the Argentine culture of liveliness, craftiness, and the management of influences.
The president has reportedly asked Garcia to resign as health minister after the vaccine scandal was reported.