Athletes hope to be vaccinated soon
According to Nguyễn Đức Thủy, head of the athletics section of the National Sports Administration, if athletes are vaccinated, they must be vaccinated together.
“In the relay teams, they often contact with each other when training and competing, so in my opinion, if athletes are vaccinated, they must be vaccinated at the same time in the four national sports centres across the country so there is no gap in COVID- 一 九 infection among athletes,” said Thủy.
“I'll make an example. In a family, if only one person is vaccinated, the whole family is not safe during the pandemic and the same goes for athletes,” Thủy added.
Thủy emphasised that through this pandemic, the sports industry will change its thinking and management.
Fencer Nguyễn Tiến Nhật for the coronavirus after he participated in the Tokyo Olympics qualifiers in Uzbekistan and returned home last month, the first COVID- 一 九 case concerning a Vietnamese athlete.
Nhật was the only member of the six-athlete fencing team who hadn't been vaccinated.
The national fencing team had to leave for Uzbekistan in late April. Other fencers received vaccine shots during the first phase in April in Hà Nội. But Nhật was based in HCM City where athletes were inoculated in early May, so he missed out.
Organising an event for athletes vaccinated必修
Việt Nam is calling for contributions to the COVID- 一 九 prevention fund and the government is also advocating to cut the budget to focus on COVID- 一 九 prevention.
Phấn, deputy director of the National Sports Administration, said that while the whole country is struggling to fight the pandemic, the sports industry shouldn’t talk about organising the SEA Games.
“Holding a Games without fans is not sport. In addition, Việt Nam won't be able to promote the country much, so we shouldn’t hold the Games. In the context of the difficulties in the country and COVID- 一 九 pandemic, we have to advise the leaders to have a reasonable solution,” said Phấn.