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LFF congress: Positive Covid-19 test for the head of Daugavpils Olympic Center – in Latvia

At the request of the Latvian Football Federation (LFF), when testing for Covid-19 caused by the new coronavirus, it turned out to be positive for Daugavpils Olympic Center (DOC) board member Vladimirs Šteinbergs, the head of the center confirmed to LETA.

Steinberg applied for the position of the first vice-president of the organization at the LFF congress on July 3. He said that the analyzes were performed last weekend and, upon receiving a positive test result, testing of contact persons was also organized. In total, about 150 people were tested – both DOC employees and their family members. The results received on Sunday show that everyone else is negative.

Home quarantine has been imposed on six DOC office employees who have been in closer contact with Steinberg.

The DOC manager himself is also in quarantine. He acknowledged that he still did not experience the symptoms of Covid-19 and was pleased that the tests were performed promptly.

Last weekend, the DOC suspended children’s sports camps there. However, given that the staff analyzes are negative, the city’s Sports Board could decide to renovate the camps, Steinberg admitted.

The other DOC bodies continue to operate as usual.

The owners of SIA “Daugavpils olimpiskais centrs” are the Latvian Olympic Committee and Daugavpils City Council. “Firmas.lv” data show that the company’s turnover last year was 946,840 euros, but the losses reached 468,774 euros.

As reported, after receiving information about Covid-19 disease from Guntars Indriksons, who attended the LFF Congress on July 3 and applied for the position of a member of the Board, LFF immediately organized testing of both LFF and non-LFF employees, as well as tests for LFF Board members. . Operational examinations of these people did not reveal any positive analyzes.

According to the information available to the LFF, another case of Covid-19 has been detected in the examinations of other participants of the LFF Congress on July 3 – LFF members, guests, technical staff, election candidates.

Over the weekend, the LFF reported four cases of Covid-19 infection in two clubs. Jūrmala “Spartaks” revealed that three persons were ill in its administration, two of whom attended the congress held on July 3, but one case of the disease was detected under the leadership of “Valmiera” club.

According to the information available to the LFF, three of these four cases are related to traveling in a common vehicle after the July 3 LFF congress with Indrikson, whose illness was reported on July 8 by the patient himself via social networks.

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