Sports: Mexico President puts Olympic Athletes at Priority Group for COVID Vaccines

Mexican Olympic athletes will be considered a priority group for COVID vaccination, announced the country's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during a news conference on Sunday. With 157 days for the Tokyo Games, it follows a move from the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach, who said that the "IOC will undertake great effort so that as many (people) as possible — Olympic participants and visitors - would arrive in Japan (with a) vaccine, if by then a vaccine is available," The head of the sports governing body told though that "Olympic participants would not be a priority for a vaccine ahead of "nurses and doctors and people who keep our society alive." Mexico had almost 2 million cases of COVID-19, with almost 175,000 lives lost.