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Reuters

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 offer at a Thursday briefing after the session.
On Friday, Marukawa said there was no change in Tokyo organisers’ plans for a safe Games, regardless of whether participants had been vaccinated.
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“I think that will be a decision for countries where (Chinese vaccines) have been approved,” Marukawa told a regular news conference when asked if athletes should receive the vaccinations offered by China.
“I am not aware if any Chinese companies have applied for approval of Chinese vaccines in our country,” she said, indicating that Japanese athletes would not be eligible.

“We are taking comprehensive anti-infection measures including activity management and testing so that people can feel secure about participating in the Tokyo Games, even without a vaccination.
“There is no change that we are proceeding on the assumption of people not getting vaccinations.”
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The Tokyo Olympics are set to run from July 23 to August 8, and the Paralympics from August 24 to September 5, after being postponed for a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.


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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

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

Seiko Hashimoto (second from right, front row), president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organising committee, and Japan’s Olympic minister Tamayo Marukawa (right, front row) in Tokyo during a teleconference with International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach. Photo: Kyodo

epa09048266 Tamayo Marukawa, Japan’s Minister for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Game, attends the five-party meeting at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, 03 March 2021. The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) held a five-party meeting on 03 March 2021 with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Government of Japan, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). EPA-EFE/Du Xiaoyi / POOL

Beijing 2022 Winter Games boycott ‘ineffective’, says US Olympic committee president Susanne Lyons

Workers discuss at the Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre under construction for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou in Hebei province last December. Photo: AP

(210228) -- ZHANGJIAKOU, Feb. 28, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Feb. 28, 2021 shows the snow covered Zhangjiakou competition zone of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei province. (Photo by Wu Diansen/Xinhua)

(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 26, 2018, US Ambassador to the United Nation Nikki Haley addresses the UNSC during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Ukraine at the United Nations in New York. - The US should boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley said on February 28, 2021, becoming the latest Republican to join a growing furor over the Games and Beijing's rights record. (Photo by Don EMMERT / AFP)

Tokyo 2020 Olympics: re-elected Thomas Bach promises ‘safe, secure’ Games

President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, reacts after his re-election in Lausanne, Switzerland. Photo: Xinhua

(FILES) This file photo taken on January 28, 2021 shows a man walking past the Olympic rings outside the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo. - A poll conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun daily revealed on March 8, 2021 that more than 75 percent of Japanese oppose overseas fans attending the Tokyo Olympics, as organisers prepare to make a decision on foreign spectators. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: overseas fans face ‘great deal of trouble’ should they be allowed into Japan

Seiko Hashimoto, President of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, speaks at a media briefing in Tokyo, Japan in March. Photo: Reuters

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask walks past in front of a display showing the logo of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games that have been postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan January 23, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo

A man and a woman look at the Olympic rings installed off the Odaiba Marine Park on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

epa09048274 Thomas Bach (on screen), president of IOC, speaks via teleconference during the five-party meeting at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, 03 March 2021. The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) held a five-party meeting on 03 March 2021 with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Government of Japan, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). EPA-EFE/Du Xiaoyi / POOL

Japan's Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto speaks to journalists at the Central Government Building in Tokyo on February 12, 2021. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Seiko Hashimoto, second right, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020), appears before reporters as Toshiro Muto, CEO of Tokyo 2020, stands by her after a five-party meeting at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP)

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

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Chinese vaccine remains unapproved in Japan