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Kenya has begun offering coronavirus vaccination to its Tokyo Olympics-bound athletes.
- AFP Nairobi
- Last Updated:April 09, 2021, 19:30 IST
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Kenya on Thursday began vaccinating its Olympic athletes towards Covid-19, paving the way in which to compete within the Tokyo Games. All the 75 athletes within the Olympic staff bubble at Nairobi’s Kasarani stadium had been vaccinated on Thursday, in an train which can even cowl the Paralympic groups, rugby sevens and the officers working with Kenya Safari Rally preparations. “It’s critical that the athletes are vaccinated against Covid 19. We are now waiting for the current lockdown to end so that the athletes can race in competitive team events,” National Olympic Committee of Kenya common secretary Francis Mutuku advised AFP.
Kenya, a world athletics superpower, hopes to take a staff of 100 athletes to the rescheduled Tokyo video games which shall be held between July 23 and August 8.
Kenya completed fifteenth and because the prime African nation on the 2016 Olympics in Rio, with a complete of 13 medals: six gold, six silver and one bronze.
Mutuku mentioned all of the Olympic hopefuls shall be required to participate within the vaccination course of which is targetting a complete of three,500 athletes, coaches, officers and handlers throughout the nation forward of the Olympics and Paralympics and the Safari rally, which acts because the sixth spherical of the World Rally championships scheduled for June 24-27.
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