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The Northern Regional Health Administration (ARS) said, this Saturday, that Desportivo de Chaves organized a cordial dinner with the squad and the technical team “in the middle of the contagious period of the confirmed cases” of covid-19.
“The local health authority learned that the squad and its technical team participated in a cordial dinner, organized by Desportivo de Chaves, in the middle of the infectious period of the confirmed confirmed cases,” the ARS do Norte statement highlights without specifying when it took place. that dinner. .
The note adds that this The information was collected at 6:34 p.m. on Friday., about 90 minutes before the meeting of the first day of the II Portuguese Soccer League, between Feirense and Desportivo de Chaves, in Santa Maria da Feira, which was postponed.
ARS do Norte explains that after the articulation of the local, regional and national health authorities, It was decided “to determine the precautionary measures that prevented the participation of that club in the soccer championship game.”.
“Is The decision was communicated to the doctor at Desportivo de Chaves, at 7:00 p.m. that same day, ”he stresses.
ARS Norte assures that “the health authorities will continue to monitor the evolution of this situation and develop the public health measures deemed necessary, together with the entities involved.”
The ARS do Norte note reveals that on September 10, the health authority of the Alto Tâmega and Barroso Health Center Groups learned of a positive case of covid-19 from a Desportivo de Chaves player.
After this case, “began the procedures inherent to the intervention in public health, recommended in the technical guidelines of the Directorate General of Health (DGS), in the field of intervention for the prevention and control of covid-19”, such as the “epidemiological investigation”. , “exposure risk assessment” and “determination of necessary and appropriate public health measures”.
After the fulfillment of the pre-match test plan provided for in the DGS and FPF joint referential, on Friday three more confirmed cases of covid-19 were identified, of a player and two members of the technical team, initiating “procedures”. “described.
The Desportivo de Chaves squad, from the II Soccer League, is being held while a risk assessment is being carried out, after four positive cases of covid-19, the local health delegate told Lusa today.
The delegate of Health of the Public Health Unit (USP) of Alto Tâmega and Barroso, Gustavo Martins-Coelho, explained that since Friday the structure of the Trás-os-Montes emblem was isolated “until the risk assessment is concluded” .
“Once this is completed, it will be determined how many elements of the structure must remain isolated and when new tests will be carried out on covid-19,” he stressed, without anticipating a date for this decision.
Gustavo Martins-Coelho had explained to Lusa on Friday night that after a first risk assessment, after four positive cases of covid-19 in the Desportivo de Chaves released on Friday, it was said that “there were no problems” for the celebration of the meeting in Santa Maria da Feira, but that “at the end of the afternoon” this entity received “new information that was not in possession at the end of the morning.”
Midfielder Guzzo and goalkeeper Samu, as well as assistant coaches Pedro Machado and Tiago Castro, tested positive “although asymptomatic,” the Trás-os-Montes club revealed on Friday morning.
The Portuguese League of Professional Soccer defended today that it is “imperative” to maintain the application of the guidance that a positive case does not demand, by itself, the collective isolation of the teams, stating that the competition cannot stop.
The League today called the doctors of all the sports societies that are part of the professional competitions for an emergency meeting, after the matches between Feirense and Desportivo de Chaves and between the Academic of Viseu and Academic, on the first day of the II Liga, they have not been carried out due to positive cases of covid-19.
The conclusions of today’s meeting will be presented at a meeting between the League and the Secretary of State for Health, António Lacerda Sales, scheduled for Monday afternoon, where the need to implement these recommendations will be reiterated, under penalty of being placed. he was referring to professional football competitions in the 2020-21 season. “
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