At the moment, and according to the Chamartín club, all the positives would be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and are confined to their respective homes. Meanwhile, the club chaired by Florentino Pérez decided to postpone training, scheduled for yesterday morning, waiting to have the results of all PCR tests in case there was any other confirmed case. Real Madrid had so far defended that it carried out “very strict controls” on both the squad and thestaff, but the latest cases have alerted the organization, as the outbreak does not only affect the football team: also the basketball coach Pablo Laso and the French escort Thomas Heurtel.
New measures
The Football League and the Spanish Federation have taken note of this and yesterday they addressed the clubs to demand that they “strengthen” the PCR tests, as well as “take extreme precautions” and ask the players to “avoid interactions”. unnecessary social issues ”. The Federation – which in October had relaxed the measures for the competitions it organizes – took a step further and decided to cancel the protocol greetings and acts of homage, both in football competitions and in futsal.
So far, the employer has only been affected by the cases in Real Madrid and Valencia – José Bordalàs, the coach, tested positive last week – but the body chaired by Javier Tebas plans to approve a package next week of new measures, updating what has been in place since the summer, to deal with the sixth wave of covid. The aim of the League is to prevent them from having a situation similar to that of the Premier League, which has had to suspend several matches in recent weeks due to covid outbreaks.
The leaders of the Spanish league had promised to make the measures more flexible once almost total vaccination rates were reached. And this December, 95% of professionals were vaccinated. But with the sixth wave in the middle, it is not ruled out that we can wait a little longer to relax the protocols. At the very least, what refers to PCR tests will remain the same: players and coaches will have to do it every 15 days. On the other hand, you will have to decide whether to reduce the duration of the confinement, which is currently 10 days for the positives, having been the last three asymptomatic.
The stadiums will keep the capacity at 100% for the time being – with the obligation to wear the mask – and the League wants to roll up its sleeves so that as few matches as possible have to be suspended. “Always, preo, preserving everyone’s health”, they point out from the board, which plans to set a minimum of 13 available players before postponing a match.
The covid wreaks havoc on the Premier
English football is going through an ordeal due to the many cases of covid that are being detected among the teams. Nine clashes have been suspended this week alone: four on Wednesday and five on the weekend. The last four were added yesterday, for coronavirus outbreaks detected in Brentford, Watford, Norwich City and Leicester.
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