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The health of more than 16 thousand players participating in the upcoming Olympic Games to be held in Japan's capital Tokyo from July 23 and Para Olympic Games just a month later is at stake.
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The reason is that there are a large numerous of participating players who have not yet received the corona vaccine. Because his age is less than 18 years. Such players are mostly involved in gymnastics, swimming and diving under the age of 12.
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Japan is not only hosting the Olympic Games this month alone, but just one month after the end of this Olympic Games, it is also going to host the Para Olympic Games.
- That is to say that together he has the responsibility of saving more than 16 thousand athletes and about 11 thousand of their support staff from the corona epidemic in the next one and a half months. 11,000 athletes from more than 200 hundred countries and about 4000 support staff will gather for about two weeks to participate in the Olympics.
- And just a month later, saving the more than 5000 athletes participating in the Paralympics and their more than 2500 support staff from the corona epidemic will be no less a big challenge.
- According to the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Tokyo 2020 playbook, its sole objective is to protect the participants and the people of Japan from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
- Guidelines designed to avoid this includes requiring Olympic athletes to wear their own face coverings, vaccinate against COVID-19 and undergo COVID testing at the required timeout after arrival in Japan.
- It should be noted here that when the IOC postponed the Tokyo Olympics in March 2020 there were only 865 active cases of Kovid-19 in Japan as against 3,85,000 active cases of Covid globally in Japan. Were recorded. It was assumed that the epidemic would be controlled in 2021 or by then vaccination would become widespread. Today 14 months have passed and now 70, Japan is in a state of emergency with over 1,000 active cases. There are currently 19 million active cases registered globally.
- The biggest concern here is that the variants of Kovid-19 are constantly changing their form and spreading rapidly. As for vaccines in Japan alone, the figures are not very encouraging. So far, less than five percent of Japan's total population has been vaccinated. If these figures are compared with the economically rich and developed countries in the world, it is very less.
- While it is true that Pfizer and BioNTech have offered to donate vaccines for all Olympic athletes, the point to note here is that the companies' proposal does not ensure that all athletes will be vaccinated before the Olympics.
- Although it is 100% true that many countries of the world have vaccinated their athletes who are going to participate in the Olympic Games.
- As a result, adolescent athletes, including gymnasts, Swimmers and divers under 12 years of age etc.
- 'Also' the problem is that in the absence of regular testing of all players, participants can become infected during the Olympics (be aware that testing for Kovid-19 in the Tokyo Olympics is different for all countries) and more than 200 Players from countries may pose a risk to their countries when they return to their home countries after the Games are over.
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