The IOC = International Olympic Committee has revealed that about 80% of athletes and leaders who will participate in the Tokyo Olympics will be vaccinated against the new coronavirus by the time of the Games.
The IOC held its second day of board meeting online on the 9th, and received a report from the Organizing Committee of the Tokyo Organizing Committee on the preparation status of the Games, which took less than 50 days to open.
After that, IOC General Manager Christoph Dubi Olympics, who attended the meeting, investigated the Olympic Committees of each country and region that dispatched athletes to the Games, and by the time of the Tokyo Games, about 80% of the athletes and leaders were vaccinated. It was clarified that it can be inoculated.
In addition, the board reported that about 8,500 athletes, or 76% of the athletes who participated in the tournament, have qualified, and the rest is expected to be decided by ranking and final qualifying. It was.
The final version of the "Playbook", which summarizes the tournament's infection control measures, will be released next week, but the director of the Dubi Olympics said, "It is absolute to quarantine for 14 days for media and related parties entering Japan from overseas. That's the main premise of the Games, "he emphasized that even if he was vaccinated, he would limit his activities for 14 days without exception.