Yesterday, the whole team performed Covid-19 tests, as well as contacts are identified and all epidemiological safety measures are taken, reports LETA, referring to the league leaders.
Riga Olympians yesterday there was a game against “Dinaburg”, but the next match for the team is scheduled for December 12 against “Prism / IHS”, but this game will not take place on the scheduled date either. Tests performed at Olimp on Wednesday revealed several (3-4) cases of Covid-19, but yesterday the tests were also performed on those team members who were not previously tested, reports Sportacentrs.
“Olimp / Venta 2002” with 27 points in 16 games in the overall league ranking takes the 1st place, but with 22 points in 14 matches is followed by “Zemgale / LLU”, which this season has also been in quarantine due to Covid-19. The morbidity has also been previously diagnosed in Daugavpils “Dinaburg”, but during an emergency situation it is not allowed to train and play hockey school “Riga”, the core of which consists of juvenile hockey players. As a result, four of the seven members of the Premier League were directly affected by the disease.
Last season, there were no playoffs in the Super League, but the winner of the tournament was the Olimp team, which won the decisive points after Riga did not come to the last match of the season with Kurbad. “Olimp” earned the right to participate in the Continental Cup organized by the International Hockey Federation IIHF this season, but this competition was canceled during the pandemic.
Andrejs Zhukovs, the head of the hockey club “Liepāja”, says that everything is in order in our city unit regarding this disease. Ice in the lion The last time the tests were performed was when he went to the Baltic League games in Lithuania and after returning from a neighboring country. In addition, tests are required from time to time by the federation.
