Sporting plans to isolate players infected with covid-19 at the Academy



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After testing on Tuesday, the lions admitted isolating the infected athletes in Alcochete, as prevention.

The confinement of players infected by covid-19 in the Academy, until the tests are negative, according to O GOGO, is one of the possibilities that is on the table of the person in charge Leo, specifically the club’s medical department, led by João Pedro Araújo.

This, however, will only be placed after the tests that will be carried out today on all elements of the Leon staff, technical and support personnel, as well as the employees who, in their daily activities, take care of the work group at the Rúben Amorim’s orders. . It will depend on whether the number will vary a lot or not in view of the seven infected players and one member of the squad, in a total of eight members, because in Alvalade it is considered to confine those who test positive in today’s test, among athletes , in the Academy, in order to safeguard them, who are asymptomatic, and their families.

On Monday it became known that one more player and a member of the staff were also infected, after a first evaluation during the day of the postponed confrontation with Napoli targeting only six athletes. Those affected – whose identity Sporting does not reveal for the sake of privacy, something that O GOGO will respect – stayed at home, in a quarantine period, while the available elements worked under the orders of Rúben Amorim at the Academy. Alcochete seeks to manage the situation normally, maintaining the health standards defined by the General Directorate of Health (DGS). All the people who intend to enter the infrastructure have their temperature measured, they are questioned, the players equip themselves in their rooms and bathe in them, trying to reduce the chances of contagion. According to those in charge of León, they understood, our newspaper learned, that contagion outbreaks are not the result of just one specific aspect, for example the athletes who have represented their national teams.

This Tuesday, being a free day, before the start of the preparation for next Saturday’s appointment, against Gil Vicente, new tests will be carried out, admitting among the lions that there may be more positive cases of contagion, this due to the different periods of incubation.



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