He badminton became the first sport to return to training in Peru after 87 days of confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Peruvian Badminton Federation reported on Wednesday.
The training sessions took place this morning with all the biosafety measures and protocols for their athletes at the Sports Center of the National Sports Village, one of the venues for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima.
The president of the Badminton Federation, Gonzalo Castillo, stated that the athletes were subjected to coronavirus tests before returning to training.
“We are quite rigorous and demanding to comply with government regulations. In this first stage only adults will train,” Castillo told reporters.
The practices were carried out in two shifts with the presence of the badminton and para-badminton teams.
On Monday a group of surfers returned to their training sessions on the beaches of Lima.
Golf and tennis were also approved to resume their practices with sanitary protocols.
The Peruvian Federation of Football and the clubs of the upper division agreed to resume the Apertura tournament on July 31 without public, if by that date the national quarantine for the coronavirus has ended.
The mandatory confinement ends on June 30 and it is estimated that it would not be renewed throughout the country by the government.
Peru is second in Latin America with the most covid-19 infections, behind Brazil, with more than 208,000 confirmed cases
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