Canadian Olympic Committee plans to access donated vaccines for athletes cp24.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cp24.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The new Pfizer offer gives the IOC greater coverage worldwide ahead of Tokyo with most countries yet to authorise emergency use of Chinese vaccines. “We are inviting the athletes and participating delegations of the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games to lead by example and accept the vaccine where and when possible,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement. The Pfizer donation followed talks between the firm’s chairman and chief executive, Albert Bourla, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. “Following this conversation, the Japanese government had a meeting with the IOC and now the donation plan has been realised,” Pfizer said in a statement.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Vaccine developers Pfizer and BioNTech will donate doses to inoculate athletes and officials preparing for the Tokyo Olympics, the IOC said Thursday. Delivery of doses is set to begin this month to give Olympic delegations time to be fully vaccinated with a second shot before arriving in Tokyo for the games, which open on July 23. It s the second major vaccination deal for the International Olympic Committee. An agreement was announced in March between the IOC and Olympic officials in China to buy and distribute Chinese vaccines ahead of the Tokyo Games and next year s Beijing Winter Games.
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MADRID, April 21 (Reuters) - All Spanish athletes competing at this year’s Tokyo Olympics will be vaccinated against COVID-19 before heading to the Games, the President of Spain’s National Council for Sports Jose Manuel Franco said on Wednesday.
“There’s absolute certainty that our sportsmen are going to be vaccinated in a timely manner and correctly, with all guarantees, and of course they will go to the games with all necessary sanitary guarantees,” Franco said.
He said the authorities were looking to cause the least disruption possible in administering the vaccinations, which may mean they are carried out at athletes’ homes rather than the Spanish Olympic Committee headquarters in Madrid.