Brazil’s Congress passed a law allowing private firms to buy vaccines and if it comes into force Athletico said they would buy them, in conjunction with other businesses. COURTESY
Brazilian top-flight football club Athletico Paranaense said it wants to buy Covid-19 vaccines and make them available to players, officials as well as fans, with paid memberships, free of charge.
Earlier this week, Brazil’s Congress passed a law allowing private firms to buy vaccines and if it comes into force Athletico said they would buy them, in conjunction with other businesses. The Curitiba-based club, who won the Copa Sudamericana in 2018, said on Thursday it would make the vaccines available “for all their employees, players, backroom staff and [members] who are helping by paying their monthly membership dues during the pandemic, even though they can’t go to the stadium”. Athletico did not say how many members they have but media reports put the figure at between 20,000 and 30,000 before the pandemic.
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