Olympic Committee Chairman Thomas Bach announced last week that this year’s Tokyo Olympics and next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, will provide participants with the Chinese Communist virus vaccine purchased from China, sparking an uproar, Japan and Australia and other countries have rejected the proposal, the East Olympic Committee also said they did not know, Bach later changed his tone, stressing that athletes are not required to be vaccinated, administered It was up to the participating countries to decide whether to administer the vaccine or not.
In response to Bach’s claim that the Chinese vaccine would be provided to Olympic athletes, Japan’s Minister of Olympic and Paralympic Affairs in Tokyo, Marukawa Juyo, said he had no prior knowledge of the proposal. And said, “I am not aware of any Chinese company that has applied for approval in Japan.” As Chinese national Medicine and other vaccines have not been approved in Japan, Japanese administrative reform official Taro Kono also stated that Japan is expected to buy 100 million doses of vaccines to be administered in Japan before the opening of the East Olympics.
Matt Carroll, the executive director of the Australian Olympic Committee, also said that the administration of the Chinese vaccine to its own athletes is not under consideration.
In the face of Japan and Australia’s clear rejection of the Chinese vaccine, Bach later changed his mind, claiming that athletes are not required to receive the vaccine and that the decision to administer it rests with the government health units of each country, and that participating countries can decide for themselves.
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