Agreement between "Pfizer" and the International Olympic Committee to provide vaccines for athletes

The Pfizer and Biontech laboratories announced today the conclusion of a memorandum of understanding with the International Olympic Committee to provide vaccines against the "Covid-19" virus for athletes and delegations from all countries participating in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which is postponed until next summer.

The two labs, whose anti-virus vaccine dominates the global vaccination campaigns, said in a statement that they would "coordinate with the National Olympic Committees around the world."

The International Olympic Committee has always ruled out making vaccination mandatory for the games scheduled between July 23 and August 8, and even a demand to give priority to athletes, but for months it encouraged the largest possible number of participants to vaccinate.

The two laboratories explained that the first deliveries of the Biontech-Pfizer vaccine should begin at "the end of May whenever possible, to ensure that members of participating delegations receive their second dose before their arrival in Tokyo."

These doses will be in addition to pre-planned deliveries as part of orders from governments or the international Kovacs program.

German International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach praised this initiative in the press release, and said, "This vaccine donation is another tool in the toolkit that will help make the Olympic Games and Olympic Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 a healthy and safe event for all participants, while showing our solidarity with our host, Japan." ".

The Olympic Games are scheduled to host about 11,000 athletes, but many of them have previously been vaccinated through their national programs or “received the promise to vaccinate” according to the International Olympic Committee, and thus the agreement with Fires-Bionic could interest a few thousand athletes, as well as all members Delegations.

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