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The postponement of Sunday’s match (1/3, 15:00) between Panathinaikos and Asteras Tripolis in “Apostolos Nikolaidis”, for match 14 of the Super League, seems more than possible, due to the cases of coronavirus that were diagnosed in four of its players. “clover”, but also the very serious possibility that other soccer players of the “greens” have been infected by the virus.
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The Super League match health Protocol states in great detail in “Article III, paragraph 2” (“Measures in the event of a virus-positive incident – Case management”):
“In the case of a scheduled team match, a molecular test with a nasopharyngeal sample RT-PCR is performed on all athletes on the eve of the match (Match Day – 1 or MD-1). If this test shows five (5) or more positive results in the athletes, the game is postponed. ” And it is complemented by the indication in “section 4” that the scheduled check is carried out 24 or 48 hours before the race.
In the previous inspection that was carried out within the entire “clover” football department, four cases of Covid-19 were found, affecting the team’s footballers. Simply put, in order to postpone Sunday’s game (3/1) with Asteras Tripolis on the Avenue, there must be another case of a Panathinaikos player during the last round of exams that took place and his results are expected to be announced. in the morning. on Sunday. It should be clarified that in these cases the case of José Mauricio who remains with coronavirus in Brazil is not counted.
The possibility of finding a 5th case is now very likely, because there are symptoms in other players, but also in members of the technical team. For all the others, however, except the players, “paragraph 6” of the Protocol establishes that they do not affect the postponement of the match (“the cases of coaches, medical personnel and other technical personnel who are considered protected contacts, are treated in a isolated without affecting the equipment “).
Panathinaikos will wait on Sunday morning (3/1) for the results of the second test that the whole team did, to determine – with greater certainty, since it is a newer and “updated” series of tests – if there are other cases within the players. If a fifth case is diagnosed, the match with Asteras will be postponed to a later date, which will be set by the Super League.
As for the next match on the greens, that of match 15 with Apollon Smyrni in Rizoupoli, which is scheduled for Thursday (1/7, 15:00), the following applies:
For there to be a “problem” in postponing the match, five more positive samples from different Panathinaikos players will need to be found in the next test to take place next week. This is because as of Monday (4/1), the case rate for each group is “reset”. And only “new cases” are counted.
This will be “reversed” only if, due to the increase in cases in the football department, the health authorities and the Attica region decide, for health security reasons, to quarantine the entire Panathinaikos team. Something that has already happened this year, before the Christmas holidays, in a similar case with Lamia’s team, which presented 9 cases of Covid-19.
On Saturday (2/1), however, no training was held on “G. Kalafatis” to prevent further spread of the virus. All the players went home, with an explicit instruction not to come into contact with anyone else and are awaiting the latest information from the Panathinaikos medical team on Sunday morning (3/1).
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