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A number of sportspeople eligible for the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo stated that they would not attend because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.
Four Pacific nations were unable to attend the games due to COVID-19 related travel restrictions in Australia, which would have required the athletes to quarantine there at their own cost, which the National Paralympic Committees were unable to afford.[1][2]
At the weekend four Pacific Island nations announced that Covid restrictions meant they wouldn't be sending their teams: Samoa, Kiribati, Tonga and Vanuatu. They cited the high cost of meeting Covid travel quarantine requirements of heading to Japan via Australia.