Dhe team of the Italian first division soccer club SSC Napoli, which was stopped due to corona cases, will spend its quarantine in a hotel not far from the southern Italian city. The club announced this on its website. The hotel complex is located in Castel Volturno near the Mediterranean. It is expected that the break could last two weeks.
The local health authorities had banned the team’s departure for the match against Juventus Turin on Saturday because two players tested positive for Corona. The failed game of Serie A could be rated 3-0 for Juve. The Campania region, in which Naples is located, is currently an area with a rapidly increasing number of infections.
On Tuesday it was also announced that the president of the Italian league, Paolo Dal Pino, had tested positive for Corona. As the Ansa News Agency wrote, he has mild symptoms and is in self-isolation at home. He attends official Serie A events from a distance.
In the league, a lot is being discussed about how to proceed in view of the number of infections. Health Minister Vincenzo Spadafora wished Dal Pino a speedy recovery. According to Ansa, the president of the FIGC football association, Gabriele Gravina, went into voluntary self-isolation as a precaution.
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