A number of Belgium players have rejected the chance to receive a Covid-19 vaccination ahead of Euro 2020, reports claim - with around half of the squad fearing side effects could wreck their hopes at the tournament. Professor Dirk Ramaekers, who heads Belgium's Task Force COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy, allayed fears about the refusals to be vaccinated. He said a number of players had already received their jabs, while some would prefer to receive theirs after Euro 2020 has ended. 'A number of Red Devils had already been vaccinated abroad, a number of them have recently experienced Covid,' he said. Belgium's vaccine tsar insists Roberto Martinez and the squad remain in favour of Covid jabs'The latter have antibodies and prefer to be vaccinated after the tournament.

Source: Daily Mail June 02, 2021 12:35 UTC