AOC says no to Chinese takeaway vaccine offer for Games athletes


Source: smh.com.au smh.com.au

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, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Normal text size Very large text size Advertisement Australian athletes and officials will not take part in an International Olympic Committee deal to buy COVID-19 vaccines from China and distribute them to Olympic and Paralympic participants ahead of the Tokyo Games. The IOC has planned this year’s Tokyo Games on the assumption that no vaccines were in play, but that hasn’t stopped re-elected president Thomas Bach from accepting an offer from the Chinese Olympic Committee to secure that country’s Sinopharm vaccine. The Sinopharm vaccine will not be made available to Australian...