Tokyo Olympics not reliant on Covid 19 vaccine, says senior IOC member
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John Coates says the IOC will ‘continue to plan’ for 2021
Views counter to Shinzo Abe’s belief that ‘it would be hard’
A senior IOC figure has played down suggestions from the Japan Medical Association that it would be “difficult” for the Tokyo Olympics to take place without a vaccine for the coronavirus, saying they were merely “an opinion”.
John Coates, head of the IOC’s coordination commission for the Olympics and a close ally of IOC president Thomas Bach, insisted that the Games going ahead were not contingent on the development of a vaccine in the next 15 months. Continue reading...
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