The next Tuesday, December 1 preseason training will officially begin for all 30 teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the step prior to the start of the 2020-2021 season, where it will again have to face the Coronavirus pandemic.
Therefore, the chain ESPN has announced that the competition has delivered to the franchises the comprehensive health and safety protocol, which contains measures very similar to those designed to govern activity during the bubble from Orlando, Florida, where there were no COVID-19 cases.
This sanitary manual contains 134 pages, according to the international signal, and the main objective of the NBA will be to combat the Coronavirus without the benefit of being inside a confinement where it could be successfully sealed outside the outside world, taking into account that it will be played in the respective headquarters of their teams.
The NBA’s sanitary protocol to combat the Coronavirus
Among the most striking things, the action that the competition will take in case of positive cases of COVID-19 stands out, where there are two alternatives for their return to the fields: a resolution “time-based” and a resolution “evidence-based”.
In the first, the NBA notes that the player must have passed at least 10 days from the date of his first positive test or the appearance of any Coronavirus symptoms, if you have had any; while in the second, the person You must return at least two consecutive negative PCR tests from samples taken at least 24 hours apart.
In addition, it is clarified by the league that among the reasons to force the cancellation of the matches, the appearance of cases external to the members of a club or the low number of cases it will not be a reason to cancel or suspend the season.
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