[ad_1]
More than 70 professional footballers from Venezuela have been infected with COVID-19 in the past 48 hours, located in a bubble-enabled headquarters with the promise of ensuring hygienic conditions during the 2020 season, the regional authority reported on Sunday.
The 76 players were in Barinas, the capital that bears the name of the state, one of the two locations defined for the 2020 season, reactivated after the forced stop by the new coronavirus and which will define the places of the Caribbean country in the Copa Libertadores and the Southern Cup America next year.
On Friday, 52 confirmed cases corresponded to footballers of teams participating in the Liga Futve regularization tournament, who came from various entities, the Barinas state government announced on its social networks.
Another 24 infections from the player’s fire were reported in Barinas on Saturday, according to the government. “Footballers from various regions of the country are already in quarantine,” he reported on his official Twitter account.
Barinas hosts the Group B of the tournament consisting of the champion Caracas FC, Zamora, Deportivo Táchira, Monagas, Metropolitanos, Aragua, Portuguesa and Gran Valencia Maracay.
Group A is made up of Estudiantes de Mérida, Deportivo Lara, Mineros de Guayana, Deportivo La Guaira, Carabobo FC, Atlético Venezuela, Academia Puerto Cabello, Trujillanos and Yaracuyanos, with engagements played in Valencia and Puerto Cabello (state of Carabobo, center).
This is after dividing the first division teams into two groups with matches in each venue. The winners of each key will decide the champion by facing each other.
Both locations act as “bubbles” with the promise of ensuring minimal preventive conditions to avoid coronavirus infections.
Neither the Professional Football League nor the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) have commented on the infections.
The reports coincided with the admission from this weekend of “access to the stadiums where the 2020 season is played, with a maximum capacity of 30 percent (…) and with biosecurity measures”, said the League on Saturday. declaration.
Due to covid-19, Venezuela has two casualties to play against Brazil on Friday in the third date of the South American qualifiers for the World Cup in Qatar-2022: goalkeeper José David Contreras and midfielder Christian Larotonda, who were at headquarters of Barinas reported Saturday the FVF.
Contreras and Larotonda tested positive with their clubs, Deportivo Táchira and Metropolitanos, so they failed to join the group that flew to Brazil.
Venezuela, with 30 million inhabitants, accumulates 94,698 confirmed cases and 824 deaths from covid-19, according to official data, questioned by organizations such as Human Rights Watch, considering them much worse.
Source link
