By Josué Karim Moreno. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P]
Vaccination should not be taken as a game. The start of the fall sports seasons can pose a danger of infection, especially among young people aged 12 to 18 years.
In this sense, U.S. President Joseph Biden said that one of the government's strategies will be to get closer to the communities, to be much closer to the homes.
In that sense, he said in a statement made last Tuesday, that efforts will be intensified so that doctors who serve families can offer vaccinations to the youngest, in order to achieve a safe return to school or even for the physical examinations necessary for fall sports.
And with the fall sports seasons just around the corner, hundreds of children and young people will join the various activities offered by local teams, such as football, soccer, volleyball, which are not without risk.
Delta variant wants to get on the pitch
Although the vaccination program has made significant progress, there is still a risk of infection among people who are not vaccinated. The emergence of the Delta variant has caused more than half of the new infections in the U.S.
"By the end of this week, we will have 160 million Americans fully vaccinated, up from about 3 million when we took office five months ago," he said. Biden.
However, he added that the fight against the virus is not over: communities, families and friends are still at risk because the Delta variant is easily transmissible and potentially more dangerous.
Above all, Biden said, it should be a cause for reconsideration, especially among young people, who may have thought they didn't have to get vaccinated or wouldn't have to worry about it.
Olympic Games, without public for the first time in history
COVID-19 has undoubtedly wreaked havoc all over the world and sport has been no exception. Thus, during the previous year, most of the sports activities were suspended and, later on, some of them were able to continue without assistance in the stands.
This year, Japan's authorities surprised the world by declaring a state of emergency in Tokyo: for the first time in history, the Olympic Games will be held without spectators, even of local origin as previously planned.
The move comes after the government agreed to establish a state of emergency for Tokyo from July 12 until Aug. 22, which anticipates a tightening of health measures in the midst of the Olympic Games, which begin July 23.
It should be noted that the Japanese capital has seen a surge in new cases of COVID-19 in recent days that is unprecedented since mid-May of this year, to reach above the threshold of cases that the government considers to be of utmost concern.
Thus, the Olympic Games will not have an audience for the first time since its first edition, held in 1898 in Athens, Greece. Previously, the Berlin 1916 Games had been suspended due to the First World War, as well as the Helsinki 1940 and United Kingdom 1944, due to the Second World War.
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