Postponed last year because of lockdowns, the 51 games of the European Championships are finally taking place—during another lockdown. The difference this time is that mass vaccination programs have been underway for months, so European governments feel it is now safe to allow fans back into the stadiums. However, they don’t all agree on how many to let in, and that decision, strangely, was not determined by how many of their citizens had been jabbed. Hungary had around 55 percent of its population vaccinated at the start of the tournament and is allowing 100 percent capacity at its stadium in Budapest. The UK had 61 percent with at least one dose of the vaccine and it chose to only allow 25 percent capacity into its Wembley national stadium. The inconsistencies in the European nations’ responses to the COVID scare are now clearly visible in the varying crowd sizes and this …
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