A dozen Venezuela gamers and training employees have examined optimistic for COVID-19 a day earlier than their Copa America opener towards the host in Brasilia, Brazilian well being authorities stated on Saturday.
The well being secretariat of the Federal District, which incorporates Brasilia, stated in an announcement that all the contaminated folks had been remoted in a resort. Not one of the Venezuelans had been named.
CONMEBOL has not stated if the match towards Brazil on Sunday at Mane Garrincha Stadium will proceed as scheduled or be delayed.
“They’re all asymptomatic, remoted in single rooms and are being monitored by the group of CONMEBOL” and native specialists, the assertion stated.
CONMEBOL has not responded to a request for remark from The Related Press.
Venezuela arrived in Brazil on Friday. Sooner or later earlier, two gamers examined optimistic for COVID-19, Wilker Angel and Rolf Feltscher. They didn’t come to Brazil, the emergency host of the match after Colombia and Argentina had been pulled.
Brazil has the second-most recorded deaths from the coronavirus on the earth, greater than 480,000. President Jair Bolsonaro, a critic of social distancing insurance policies, is the principle advocate for the Copa America, although it is not going to be attended by spectators.
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