Unexpected blow two days after debut: Gretter and Burani are the first positive tests for Covid-19 in 45 days. Boquete and Rosset, also essential pieces, isolated as a precaution. Counter-evidence awaits.
The arrival of the Argentine National Team to Puerto Rico thinking about the AmeriCup left an unexpected blow. After the swabs decreed by FIBA when arriving at the Hotel Verdanza de San Juan, the results delivered this Wednesday morning showed two positive cases of Covid-19: Captain Melisa Gretter and Sub-captain Agostina Burani. This also affects her roommates, Andrea Boquete and Macarena Rosset, as they are both “close contact”.
After receiving the news, the protocol for the counter-tests, which will be two new studies, was quickly activated. The first one was already done this noon and the results are awaited for tonight or tomorrow morning. A new test will take place on Thursday. If both retests are negative, it was just a false alarm. For the moment, two days before the debut in this Americup -Friday at 16, against the Dominican-, we will have to wait for the medical news.
“We did not expect it. From April 28 we took all the precautions and until June 5, which was the last swab before leaving Buenos Aires, there was not a single positive case. But for the tournament you have to travel, the trip It involves a significant risk and now this is happening … Let’s wait, anyway, the results of the counter tests. Hopefully it is nothing more than an error in the result. We are hopeful. We have to wait and see what happens, and with whom we can count for the matches “, declared head coach Gregorio Martínez in dialogue with Prensa CAB.
Unfortunate situation that may deprive the National Team of having four decisive players within the team structure, after 45 days of preparation, with double shift training and concentrations in both Buenos Aires and Sunchales, in which there was never a sanitary inconvenience. It is clear that, for the team, this comes at the worst moment. Fortunately, all four players are in good health and without symptoms.
The delegation’s doctor, Mariano D ‘Elía, explained what has been done so far and asked for caution before speculating what could happen. “Both players and their roommates were isolated, all in individual rooms, and two counter tests will be carried out. According to these results, the protocol will proceed. We must be patient and we will inform ourselves how we will continue, depending on how the results come out. new tests “, reported.
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