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Giro d’Italia, Gaviria still positive (after having already been positive in March) – Corriere.it

Only one runner tested positive at the last molecular swab on the second day of rest of the Giro d’Italia, carried out in the hotels of Friuli. Fernando Gaviria, the South American sprinter of UAE Emirates, immediately quarantined by the team. The real news that the Colombian was, last March, the first professional cyclist in the world to be infected. The positivity was discovered in Abu Dhabi during the UAE Tour and the sprinter (slightly symptomatic at the time) was forced to a very long quarantine in an Emirati hospital.

The 492 tests carried out last Sunday showed only one other positive, a member of the Ag2R la Mondiale staff team who had already had a case last week. The percentage of positives in the Giro caravan equal to 0.6% against a national average of 9.4% on swabs carried out. The caravan continues its run towards Milan with the 16th stage Udine-San Daniele del Friuli of 229 km.

20 October 2020 (change October 20, 2020 | 10:48)

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