Why River’s 15 positives can play against Fluminense

River hopes to be able to count before Fluminense with the 15 footballers who are recovering from their coronavirus pictures. It is the first litter of infected, that is, those who were isolated on Saturday, May 15, and who by Tuesday will have already completed ten days of confinement.

So that Marcelo gallardo can count on these players, first they must be clinically examined to rule out any type of sequelae caused by the virus. However, if they pass the checks successfully, they will be able to dispute the last date of group D of the Libertadores. Even with positive PCR. But why?

The operations protocol of the South American Confederation establishes that for cases with mild symptoms that “precautions related to transmission (including isolation) will be suspended and the Covid-19 care route will be abandoned when: a) Ten days have passed since the test (RT-PCR (+) for SARS-CoV-2 RNA) has been positive, plus a minimum of 3 days without symptoms (no fever, no respiratory symptoms, without having used antipyretic drugs and with evident improvement of the other symptoms.) in the case of symptomatic patients; b) Ten days have passed since the test (RT-PCR (+) for SARS-CoV-2 RNA) has been positive for asymptomatic patients”.

Likewise, so that the footballers who were infected can be qualified for the competition River must send a permission slip to Conmebol indicating the condition of the players in questionThe first positive test must also be attached, a sworn statement signed by the doctor indicating that the footballer is in optimal conditions to practice sports and the new test.

In River they consider that, if ten days are contemplated from the moment of the positive, on Monday the players who tested positive on Saturday will already be able to play, previous cardiological checks that rule out sequelae of the coronavirus picture.

In this way they would be available Franco Armani, Germán Lux, Enrique Bologna, Franco Petroli, Paulo Díaz, Robert Rojas, Tomás Castro Ponce, Nicolás De la Cruz, Bruno Zuculini, Rafael Borré, Matías Suárez, Agustín Palavecino, Santiago Simón, Benjamín Rollheiser and Federico Girotti.

Now, since the PCR test of an infected person can be positive up to three months after being infected, not necessarily the exams prior to the match against Fluminense – they would be held on Saturday – must give yes or yes negative since the viral load in the organism is not enough to cause infections after ten days of isolation.

Boca’s antecedent in Paraguay

The precedent that was set in Freedom-Mouth in that sense it weighs in favor of River: the statement issued on September 15, 2020 by the CSF that clarified why the soccer players of Miguel Ángel Russo’s team were allowed to play in Paraguay despite the fact that the post-discharge PCR test of several involved had been positive.

The Conmebol He had given Boca the green light since “similar circumstances have occurred in local tournaments in South America and in competitions in Europe. In all cases, the players who did not present symptoms for several days and whose RT-PCR (+) test dated 10 or more days ago were allowed to play, BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT SPREAD THE DISEASE ”.

In this way, against Fluminense, River could use fifteen of the first infected. Not so with Leo Ponzio, Alex Vigo, Gonzalo Montiel, Lucas Beltrán, Flabian Londoño, Fabrizio Angileri and José Paradela. And it is expected for the tests to Agustín Fontana (isolated with symptoms).