2024-04-10 16:30:29
Photo: September 5 Newspaper (Archive)
Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
A player and a coach from Cienfuegos have tested positive for Covid-19 and their expected debut this Friday with the current champion Matanzas in the playoffs of the 60th National Series was suspended.
The National Commission confirmed the two new cases in a note on the official Inder website, Jit, a situation that “requires five days of isolation to provide continuity to the protocols.”
The 60th National Series was the only sporting event that survived the massive INDER suspensions of all national and international activities decreed a few days ago and which will last until March due to the serious epidemiological situation that has become markedly out of control in Havana.
To maintain the baseball competition, without fans in the stadiums, the authorities opted for the “bubble” format with four teams concentrated in a hotel in Sancti Spiritus and another four teams in Cienfuegos.
With this recent detection, cases of infections have already appeared in the concentrations of the two provinces after the announcement by a member of the management body of the Santiago de Cuba team at the Cienfuegos headquarters while still waiting for the PCR results to oriental players.
“Everything seems to indicate that Covid-19 has taken its toll on the untamed and if it previously forced them to play for qualification at the last moment, now it threatens to leave them out of the post-season,” wrote the Sierra Maestra newspaper. Their match against Las Tunas was suspended.
So far, this is the fourth positive case of Covid-19 detected in the untamed roster so far in 2021. The information about the two cases in Cienfuegos is striking because the newspaper 5 de Septiembre said that before the team Players detected positive for Covid-19 were excluded from the trip to the Sancti Spíritus “bubble.” Manager Alaín Alvarez assured that following the health protocol to the letter, the members of the delegation remained isolated since they arrived last Sunday in Sancti Spiritus lands.
The National Commission indicated that “the situation prevailing in both venues (Sancti Spíritus and Cienfuegos) continues to be evaluated in detail in order to decide promptly, always with the priority that the health of athletes and other protagonists of the main sporting event in the country deserves.”