ＩＯＣ会長、ワクチン接種「義務にしない」　東京五輪

　国際オリンピック委員会（ＩＯＣ）のバッハ会長は１７日、来夏に延期された東京五輪で大会参加者の接種を要望するとした新型コロナウイルスのワクチンについて、「（接種を）必要条件にはしない」と述べた。海外からの観客についても同様に「義務化はしない」と語った。
　接種を義務にしない理由を「必要条件にするというのは行き過ぎ。個人の健康の問題だ。選手やその他の参加者、特に選手村で過ごす人には接種を勧めるが、自由裁量に任せる」とした。
　バッハ会長は１６日の記者会見で、来夏にワクチン接種が可能になるとの見立てを示し「入手可能ならＩＯＣがコストを見る」と話していた。（2020/11/17-19:00）

Participants in next year's Tokyo Olympics will not be required to take a coronavirus vaccination to join the games, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said Tuesday.
   "This will be no requirement" for athletes and other people involved in the event to get vaccinated, said Bach, who is visiting Japan to show the IOC's full commitment to holding a successful Tokyo Games. The Summer Olympics and Paralympics have been postponed by one year to 2021 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
   Bach also said there will be "no obligation" for foreign spectators to get vaccinated.
   It goes too far to require a vaccination as it is a matter of private health, Bach said. The IOC will encourage athletes and other people involved in the games to get vaccinated, especially those who are going to spend time in the athletes' village, he said, while adding that whether to do so will be up to them.
   The IOC chief's remarks came a day after he told a press conference in Tokyo that vaccines will likely be available by next summer and that if so, the IOC will cover the cost of vaccination.