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In recent days, Serie A has dealt with the case related to tampons carried out in recent weeks by Lazio, a fact that could have criminal implications: in fact, both the Avellino Prosecutor, competent for the reasons that we will see , like the FIGC are investigating. . The subject of the investigation is the fact that Lazio had players who tested positive for swabs tested in UEFA-affiliated laboratories train and play in the league before the last two Champions League games.
Between the last week of October and the first of November, Lazio underwent three swab cycles, the first of which had found the coronavirus positivity of four of its players, which had joined the previous two (the club has chosen never to communicate the names of the positives, which are then identified by the call or by the messages posted individually). The first cycle in question dates back to October 26 and had been analyzed by Synlab laboratories, which must be addressed by all teams involved in the European Cups, including Lazio, according to UEFA guidelines. The six positive players (Manuel Lazzari, Luis Alberto, Anderson, Ciro Immobile, Lucas Leiva and Thomas Strakosha) were therefore excluded from the call for the Champions League match played in Belgium against Bruges on Wednesday, October 28.
Between 30 and 31 October, Lazio had carried out a new cycle of tampons according to the regulations in view of the championship match against Turin on 1 November. However, unlike UEFA, Serie A does not require swabs to be tested by a single laboratory: each team uses the recognized body of its choice. As of the resumption of the matches, Lazio’s swabs are examined by the Futura Diagnostica laboratory in Avellino, which on October 31 had confirmed part of the positivity found four days earlier by Synlab but not those of Immobile, Leiva and Strakosha . These three players were called up for the Turin match and the first two used in the second half.
However, two days later, Immobile, Leiva and Strakosha again tested positive for the swabs examined by Synlab on behalf of UEFA and were therefore excluded from the 4 November Champions League match against Zenit St. Petersburg. In light of the new positivity, the company also subjected the three players to swabs examined in its “trust” lab, according to which Leiva and Strakosha were negative while Immobile weakly positive (which is why the company decided in the meantime to add to training). Lazio then went to a third lab, the Rome Biomedical Campus, which confirmed all the positives. On Saturday 7 November, on the eve of Lazio-Juventus, the club’s reference ASL finally intervened to arrange the quarantine of the three players despite the fact that Lazio continues to have faith in the negativity certified by the Campania laboratory.
On the same day, the Avellino prosecutor sent investigators to the Lazio sports center in Formello and to Avellino’s laboratory to investigate the discrepancies that emerged in the different swabs made. Second La Gazzetta dello Sport The prosecutor focuses on the possibility of possible manipulation: for now the only suspect is the manager of the Avellino laboratory and the criminal hypotheses are false, guilty epidemic and fraud in public supplies.
Doubts about the matter were fueled by statements made in recent months by Lazio’s health director, Ivo Pulcini, later taken up by President Claudio Lotito. According to Pulcini, the coronavirus was already “dying” last May, while more recently he claimed that a positivity considered weak “has no contagious meaning.” In an interview published in Republic Last week, Lotito added: “What does positive mean? Positive means contagious, right? Even in the vagina of women, of all women in the world, there are bacteria. But not all are pathogenic, only some in some cases become pathogenic and degenerate.
On Monday, Pulcini should have appeared before the federal prosecutor to be heard in the tampon investigation, but got postponement, for the second time, for health reasons. Meanwhile, the championship has stopped for two weeks for the national team, during which the FIGC could update its health protocol and work on the establishment of a single laboratory that tests the swabs of all the championship teams as already envisaged by the protocol. from UEFA.
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