Brazilian Club: Athletico Paranaense to purchase COVID-19 vaccinations for Fans, officials, and players

Athletico Paranaense to purchase COVID-19 vaccinations for fans, officials, and players. Fans within this category must however be registered members of the Brazilian Sports powerhouse and Club.

Athletico Paranaense, a Brazilian top-flight football team, has confirmed that it intends to purchase COVID-19 vaccines and make them available to clubs, administrators, and fans with paying memberships for free.

Earlier this week, Brazil’s Congress passed legislation authorizing private companies to purchase vaccinations, and Athletico has said that if the legislation becomes law, they will do so in collaboration with other companies.

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The Curitiba-based team, which won the Copa Sudamericana in 2018, announced on Thursday that the vaccinations will be made available “for all their workers, players, backroom personnel, and [members] who are assisting by paying their monthly membership dues during the pandemic, even though they can’t go to the stadium.”

Monthly memberships at the club are priced between 75 Brazilian real ($13.5) and 350 real ($62.9), equivalent to season tickets in Europe.

“Athletico encourages all organisations interested in football to contribute to the country’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic,” the club said in a tweet.

Although Athletico did not specify how many members they had, prior to the pandemic, media sources set the number between 20,000 and 30,000.

In a report per Aljazeera: Brazil has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic, with authorities announcing a daily death toll of 4,249 on Thursday.

In South America’s most populated nation, more than 345,000 people have died as a result of the outbreak. Brazil leads the world in the daily average number of new coronavirus deaths recorded.

The World Health Organization recognised the country’s desperate situation as a result of the coronavirus, stating that the country is in a critical state with an overburdened healthcare system.