Tokyo 2020 Olympics: no Chinese vaccines to be taken by Team Japan, minister says


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Chinese vaccine remains unapproved in Japan Chinese vaccine remains unapproved in Japan. Japanese athletes at the Summer Olympics will not be eligible for coronavirus vaccinations offered by China since Japan has not approved the vaccines, Olympics minister Tamayo Marukawa said on Friday. The Chinese Olympic Committee offered vaccine doses for participants of this year’s Tokyo Olympics and the Beijing 2022 Winter Games , the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday. IOC president Thomas Bach’s announcement during an online session took organisers of the Tokyo Games, such as chief executive Toshiro Muto, by surprise. Muto declined to comment on the...