88% of athletes and coaches are expected to finish vaccination before the opening of Para

The Games Organizing Committee has revealed that 88% of athletes and coaches staying in the Olympic Village to participate in the Tokyo Paralympics, which will start next week, will finish vaccination against the new coronavirus before the Games start.

Approximately 4,400 athletes will participate in the Tokyo Paralympics, which will start next week, and up to 8,000 athletes, coaches, and other related parties can stay in the Olympic Village in Harumi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.

According to information from the IPC = International Paralympic Committee, the Games Organizing Committee has revealed that 88% of athletes and coaches staying in the Olympic Village are expected to finish vaccination with the new coronavirus before the opening of the Games. I made it.

In response to the spread of the new corona infection, the Tokyo Paralympics will be held without spectators in principle at all competition venues, but some para-athletes have underlying diseases and are infected with the new corona. Countermeasures have become a major issue.

At a press conference on the 16th, Secretary-General Muto of the Organizing Committee said that he was asked about the vaccination rate of para-athletes and said, "I do not know the details", but the Organizing Committee made a clerical mistake. He explained that the information was not transmitted.