Olympia in Tokyo: No vaccination

"These games will be in many respects different," said Pierre Ducrey, the operational planning of the Olympic games this summer in Tokyo, Director in charge of the International Olympic Committee. A taste of the on Wednesday submitted a so-called "playbook", with the organizers to educate the participants and guests, as the biggest sporting event in the world in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic safely across the stage to go there.

Patrick Welter

correspondent for economic and policy in Japan, headquartered in Tokyo.

The book describes the behavior of the recommendations. The organizers ask the sports guests to use public transport only with the special permission, and to wear a face mask, except when eating and Sleeping. Even before the departure to Japan you should prepare a list of people with whom you during the stay closer contact. A vaccination is not mandatory. The arriving participants must register prior to departure tested for the Virus and after arrival in Tokyo, once again. At the airport, you will be encouraged to leave the building as quickly as possible, and not to the shops to stop.

For the first 14 days of stay in Japan, the guests have to pre-specify which activities you plan. During this time, you are allowed to visit only official Olympic places and a limited number of other goals. Tourist activities, visiting shops, Restaurants or Bars, or the visit of the Olympic competitions as spectators are not allowed in the first 14 days.

the rule book for spectators and athletes

These rules apply to the submitted now game book for the representatives of the international sports federations. In the coming days, similar guides for the athletes and the sports press, to be published. For all, it would appear, that for the protection against infection, a distance of two meters to athletes and recommended by a Meter all the other people. Athletes should only be used with the clapping of hands, but with chants or Call. The athletes will be tested according to the words of Ducrey, at least every four days on the Virus. You will be able to complete after the arrival in Japan of the necessary training units, but not much more than that. Many of the Details of the corona protection rules should only be until April. Whether sport should be arriving fans is not fixed yet.

The Virus will be gone by the summer, nowhere in the world, said Hidemasa Nakamura, the Japanese preparation Committee. With many Tests and the Information about the counter-measures they wanted to take the population to Ensure imported corona virus. As a sanction for non-compliance with the rules, the organisers threatened with a withdrawal of accreditation or the disciplinary Commission.