While the hosting of the Tokyo Olympics continues to worry the Japanese population, the Pfizer and BioNTech laboratories promised Thursday to give vaccines against Covid-19 to the participants, unevenly protected for the time being depending on the country.
The two companies, whose vaccine dominates global vaccination campaigns, "will coordinate with Olympic committees across the globe" to organize this distribution, they said in a statement.
The IOC has always ruled out making vaccination compulsory for the Games (23 July-8 August), and even calling for a prioritization of athletes which is difficult to justify ethically, but has for months encouraged as many participants as possible to be vaccinated.
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