North Melbourne is leading the charge across the AFL, with 92 per cent of its football department having received their first-dose vaccinations for COVID-19.
The club is on track to have all of its AFL and AFLW players, football staff and coaches fully vaccinated by early October.
“If you look at our football areas we have nearly 140 staff with all our mens and women’s players and football staff including permanent and casuals and of that cohort, we are at 92 per cent who have had their first dose and that 92 per cent will be (fully vaccinated) within five weeks,” CEO Ben Amarfio told The Herald Sun.
“The other eight per cent includes some people with health concerns and some people who are pregnant, so for those people we will continue our support and education.
“We didn’t do it to take a leadership stance, we did it because we know it’s the right thing to keep ourselves safe and healthy in the community.
“It’s the only way out of our lockdowns to get vaccinated. We wanted to do our bit.”
For our families, our community and to get back to what we love doing, get vaccinated.
— The Huddle (@HuddleNMFC) August 24, 2021
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On Friday, AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan said vaccine passports to attend AFL games in 2022 were a "plausible possibility".
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