WHO: Top athletes shouldn’t jump Covid vaccination queue

There are simply other people, such as frontline health workers and vulnerable people, who are dying and need the valuable vaccine more urgently, said Dr Michael Ryan

File photo of Dr Michael Ryan, the WHO’s executive director of the health emergencies programme. AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Martial Trezzini

Top athletes should not jump the queue to get Covid-19 vaccinations so they can compete at the Olympics, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has suggested.

There are simply other people, such as frontline health workers and vulnerable people, who are dying and need the valuable vaccine more urgently, Dr Michael Ryan, the WHO’s executive director of the health emergencies programme, stated.