An athlete gets the COVID-19 vaccination.
Doha: The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) has completed its vaccination program for athletes who were unable to be vaccinated in their home countries in advance of travelling to Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
This initiative came within the framework of QOC’s partnership with the International Olympic Committee, which, in coordination with the National Olympic Committees, established two centers in Qatar and Rwanda to provide additional opportunities for vaccination against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic for groups of participants in the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
After a group of countries joined this great initiative, the QOC agreed jointly with the IOC, Pfizer-BioNTech and Qatar Airways to provide vaccinations
To this end, last week, the QOC completed all vaccine doses for participants of the countries who joined the initiative. Participants arrived at Hamad International Airport and stayed at Doha’s training camp. The QOC provided all necessary measures required for the athletes and delegations in cooperation with Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Public Health and Hamad International Airport.
The QOC is proud to cooperate with the IOC in pushing the Olympic Movement forward amid this COVID-19 and supporting the Tokyo 2020 organizers to host a safe and successful Games.
The IOC, together with the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and government authorities of Qatar and Rwanda established last June two further pre-Games vaccination opportunities for Olympic and Paralympic Games participants.
These two vaccination hubs allow Games participants who will be unable to be vaccinated in their home countries in advance of travelling to Japan for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 to get inoculated.
