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Junior from Barranquilla confirmed on the morning of Wednesday, December 9, ten positive cases for coronavirus, among which eight are players and two are members of the coaching staff. These infections were made known after the ‘rojiblanco’ team played with Unión La Calera de Chile in the South American Cup and against América de Cali for the first leg of the BetPlay League semifinals.
This Thursday, December 10, after reporting the infections and the defeat of the ‘shark’ team in the first leg of the quarterfinals in the South American Cup at home against Coquimbo Unido, Luis Amaranto Perea, technical director of the Barranquilla team, announced When does he think the cases began to be registered on the campus.
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“Basically between the return from Chile and the arrival in Cali It was those three days when we began to feel the symptoms of several of us and it was when we began to worry, “said the strategist in dialogue with Planeta Fútbol of Antena 2.
On the other hand, Perea accepted that for the match against America some of the team members disputed the match with symptoms since the last tests had been done 72 hours before the trip to Chile for the match with Unión La Calera and the following date for the new exams were on Monday, December 7, according to the Dimayor calendar.
“We performed the tests until Monday when we arrived in Barranquilla and that was when the positives came out. 72 hours before traveling to Chile the tests were done, all negative, we traveled negative and the next tests were on December 7,” he said. .
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In this way, Junior’s technical director confirmed that for the local contest no tests were carried out for covid-19, but at the same time indicated that new tests will be carried out before the return of the semifinals.
Finally, Luis Amaranto Perea assured that according to the regulations the tests to detect the coronavirus are done every two weeks (15 days).
