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The Chinese Olympic Committee has offered vaccine doses to be used for participants at the summer's Tokyo Olympic Games and next year's Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday.
"The IOC has received a kind offer from the Chinese Olympic Committee, hosts of the 2022 Beijing winter Olympics, to make additional vaccine doses available to participants in both editions of the Olympic Games, Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022," IOC President Thomas Bach told the Olympic body's virtual session.
Bach did not provide details on the offer, including how many doses it will include.
"The Chinese Olympic Committee is ready in cooperation with the IOC to make these additional doses available... either via collaboration with international partners or directly in countries were agreements regarding Chinese vaccines are in place," Bach said, adding "the IOC will pay for the additional doses of vaccines not only for Olympic but also Paralympic teams."
And a significant number of Olympic teams have been vaccinated in line with national vaccination guidelines, Bach said on Thursday.
The Tokyo Olympics, postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, are now scheduled for July 23 to August 8 this year with fear ofhosting without international spectatorsdue to virus spread.
And the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be staged from February 4 to 20 in 2022.
On March 7, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has revealed thatChina is ready to work with the International IOC to provide vaccines for Olympians.
(CGTN)
