The health services of the Principality are investigating the possible connection between the COVID-19 outbreak registered among Sporting de Gijón players -with 10 positives, six of them players with a first-team card- and the first two cases of the new strain British coronavirus detected in Asturias in the bosom of a family from Avilés.
This Saturday, the rojiblanca squad has undergone new PCR tests to verify that there have been no new infections of COVID-19, in addition to the tests required by the LaLiga protocol, the Principality of Asturias has asked the squad and employees of the Gijón club that pass another in the dependencies designated by the health authorities and it is not ruled out that sanctions may occur if negligence on the part of the soccer players is proven.
The coordinator of COVID programs of the Health Council of the Principality, María José Villanueva, waiting for the health authorities to conclude the investigation of the outbreak in Sporting and of the cases of the British strain detected in Avilés, has recalled the need to exercise extreme caution in social relationships.
According to Villanueva, the relationship between the spread of the virus and social relationships in homes and in the hospitality industry has become “evident” in a focus that already affects more than 34 positive cases and about 130 close contacts that are not limited to the field. merely sports club if not that includes family and friends of those affected.
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