JAKARTA – The Indonesian team was forced to withdraw from All England 2021 due to a plane with anonymous passengers that tested positive. According to UK government regulations, if you are on the same plane as a COVID-19 positive person, you are required to undergo 10 days of isolation.
Now, we compare it to football, especially the English Premier League competition. There have been several positive cases of COVID-19 that have emerged in the upper strata of the Queen Elizabeth state soccer competition, one of which is most comparable is the case of West Ham United.
Coach David Moyes and two of his players; Issa Diop and Josh Cullen were diagnosed with COVID-19 during warm-ups prior to their match against Hull City at the Carabao Cup last September. They were immediately asked to go home and self-destruct. Meanwhile, no other player has been isolated.
This happened just 70 minutes before kickoff and Moyes, Diop and Cullen were certainly close to the other players and coaching staff at the time. But, as reported by the Daily Mail, the match was not canceled. Not even West Ham is disqualified.
Isn’t this case similar to that of the Indonesian team at All England? They were said to be in close contact with people who were COVID-19 positive, but all were isolated (except four people who were not emailed by the NHS National Health Service) and forced to withdraw from the tournament.
Well, maybe the West Ham case happened last year. Six months ago. But in fact, the health protocols that the UK applies to professional athletes remain the same. On March 15, the Premier League issued an official press release on health protocols. See below:
“The Premier League can confirm today that between Monday, March 8 and Sunday, March 14, in two rounds of testing, 2,664 players and club staff were tested for covid-19.
Of these, there were two new positive tests. Players or club staff who tested positive will be isolated for 10 days.
The English Premier League provides this combined information for the purposes of competition integrity and transparency.
The League will not provide specific details about the club or the person and the results will be published weekly. “
That’s what the statement says. Obviously, isolation is only for positive cases.
Soccer, clearly making physical contact, fighting, pulling shirts, until spitting is still allowed to continue, on the same day, in a normal way. In fact, West Ham players have close contact with positive COVID-19 cases: Moyes, Diop and Cullen.
Isn’t this riskier than the Indonesian team at All England called a plane with “mystery” passengers who are COVID-19 positive? In addition, it was reported from Badminton Talk, the competing Indonesian athletes are already in the “semi-bubble” of the all england tournament and all through strict health protocols with periodic PCR tests.
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