Atsushi Saito, Commissioner of Professional Baseball, is expected to finish vaccination of all desired players by the end of the Tokyo Olympics in early August, as the new Coronavirus Countermeasures Liaison Conference for Professional Baseball and Soccer J League is held. Was shown.
Occupational inoculation of the new coronavirus vaccine began in earnest at companies and universities on the 21st, and in professional baseball, about 60 people including director Tsuyoshi Yoda of Chunichi, leaders and players are the parent company Chunichi Shimbun Tokyo Headquarters I was inoculated at.
Commissioner Saito of professional baseball explained at a meeting after the countermeasures liaison meeting with the J.League that all applicants were ready to receive vaccinations for professional baseball players within the framework of occupational vaccination.
He added, "The goal is that everyone will finish vaccination at the end of the Tokyo Olympics. In the second half of the season, all applicants may be able to play with vaccinations." By August 8th, when the Tokyo Olympics will end. He said he would like to finish the inoculation of all the athletes he wants.
On the other hand, regarding the J.League, Mitsuru Murai said that although 57 clubs are scattered all over the country, there is a difference in the progress of vaccination preparations, but local sponsor companies should include clubs in the occupational area vaccination. and that case there was, revealed when the J-League is considering to prepare their own vaccination venue said, "I want to strive to be inoculated into the Olympic Games of the interruption period July to prospect if possible." Was there.