Portuguese League
The National Institute of Health of Portugal has confirmed that soccer players have that variant
The National Institute of Health "Ricardo Jorge" (Insa) of Portugal today confirmed to Efe the detection of thirteen cases of the omicron variant in the Belenenses players who tested positive for COVID-19.The circumstance that the South African footballer Cafú Phet.
However, so that there is scientific evidence as a whole, in the next few hours they will make the "sequencing" of the samples to guarantee one hundred percent that this variant is, the sources of Insa explained to Efe.As a sanitary measure, all players are isolated in quarantine and also all the people who had had contact with them.
Controversial
In the last hours, according to EFE, the soccer club itself, a total of 17 positives: 13 players, the coach and his assistant and two other members of the coaching staff were detected in the squad.Despite the outbreak, the League match was disputed that was scheduled for Saturday night against Benfica, since neither the League nor the health authorities suspended it.
Due to the high number of Covid cases, the team jumped to the pitch with only 9 troops and after the break, when Benfica already imposed 0-7, the match was suspended, since the Belenenses only had 6 playersField, for the injury of a footballer.
This football match has generated a huge controversy in Portugal, so the League plans to hold meetings today with different entities to clarify what happened.
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