Two more NBA games involving the Washington Wizards were postponed this Friday for a covid-19 outbreak On campus.
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“Due to ongoing contact tracing within the Wizards, the team does not have all eight players available required by the league to continue scheduled games against the Cavaliers“, Sunday and Monday, noted the NBA.
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The postponements come amid reports that five Wizards players have tested positive for the coronavirus. Two other parties involving Washington Wizards they had already been postponed this week.
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Already add 12 games postponed this season, now in its fourth week of competition.
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The NBA and his players union updated the health and safety protocols of covid-19 on Tuesday with the goal of keeping those healthy and available to play.
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The new measures were imposed “in response to the increase in COVID-19 cases across the country and a rebound among NBA teams that require quarantines of players, “the league said in a statement.
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Unlike last year, when the NBA completed his season in a safe quarantined “bubble” in Orlando, Florida, the 2020-2021 campaign is underway with teams playing at their home venues.
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However, the first weeks of the season unfold in the context of a skyrocketing covid-19 cases in the United States, where the disease has claimed more than 381,000 lives and infected nearly 23 million people.
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