Tokyo 2020 organisers to offer volunteers COVID-19 vaccine - Nikkei

FILE PHOTO: A man receives the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Tokyo, Japan June 25, 2021. Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Pool via REUTERS

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games organisers will give all 70,000 volunteers working for the Games an opportunity to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Saturday, citing organisers.

Nikkei said some of the volunteers have already been vaccinated.