The first case of contamination with the coronavirus in the championship of Greece was recorded within the team of Xanthi, without the identity of the person concerned having been revealed, announced on Friday the agency Athens News Agency. Under the health protocol in force in the country, the entire workforce of Xanthi was placed in quarantine for the next 48 hours at its hotel in Lamia. The player or the member of the contaminated technical staff will be placed under surveillance for fourteen days. Xanthi was to play on the Lamia field on Saturday as a relegation pool from the Greek championship and the match was postponed. New tests will be carried out on the entire squad of Xanthi and if they prove negative, the match could be played on Monday. Already on June 5, the meeting between Xanthi and Atromitos had been postponed due to the presence of the coronavirus in the Xanthi region (northeast). The Greek government had given the green light on May 27 to the resumption of the Super League, with matches in camera, after a shutdown of almost three months due to the epidemic of coronavirus.
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