After the discovery of Covid-19 in Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo“the team’s game scheduled for Tuesday’s away away with Riga has been transferred to the team indefinitely”Dinamo“, informs Continental Hockey League (KHL).
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In a conversation with the agency LETA “Dinamo” on Saturday, the chairman of the board Juris Savickis confirmed that the Riga team from Russia has returned with several Covid-19 patients. KHL reported on Sunday that Covid-19 was found in the Dinamo team for five people who are currently in self-isolation.
The Torpedo team has also informed the league that several of its players have symptoms. After the tests, four of them were found to be infected with Covid-19.
Club members who had symptoms of the disease and negative Covid-19 test results are also in self-isolation. They will have several more tests in the coming days.
Taking into account that currently some of the “Torpedo” hockey players are in self-isolation, and there is too little time left until the game to formalize the crossing of the border, KHL has decided to postpone the match of both teams scheduled for Tuesday at “Arena Riga”.
Ilze Arāja, a spokeswoman for the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC), told LETA on Saturday that the epidemiological investigation is still ongoing, but five cases related to the “Dinamo” team have been confirmed. Several contacts have also been identified. Patients and contacts are in isolation.
The SPKC representative also did not currently specify whether the patients and contact persons were hockey players or other persons working in the team.
The number of contacts could not be stated at the time of Arāja, as the epidemiological investigation is still ongoing. It also explains where the infection took place and whether it could have happened in Russia.
Arāja explained in general that sick persons should be in isolation until the family doctor accepts that he is healthy and can go to the community. Contact persons should be kept in isolation for 14 days, but if symptoms occur and the Covid-19 test is positive, the contact person becomes ill and contact persons are identified.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the board of “Dinamo” club Juris Savickis on Saturday in a conversation with LETA confirmed that five hockey players and two more members of the team staff are ill.
Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, several games of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) club Nursultan “Baris” have already been postponed, including the “Baris” and Riga “Dinamo” September 18 match in Nursultan.
Also, the “Dinamo” game with Nizhny Novgorod “Neftehimik” scheduled for Riga did not take place before due to illness in the away team, as there was a change of game referees due to illness.
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