About 13,000 tickets, about 30 percent of the Cuscatlán stadium’s capacity, were sold to Alianza and Águila fans to attend the final.
It was the first major event in El Salvador since the first Covid-19 contamination in March 2020.
The close relationship between the fans forced referee Iván Barton to delay the start of the match for a few minutes.
Stadium authorities have opened other areas unable to ensure physical distance.
Outside the stadium and hours before the start of the game, people were seen without or with a poorly placed mask.
Before entering the sports scene, the temperature of those present was measured and bottles of gel alcohol were distributed, according to reports from the Salvadoran press.
The sale of tickets and the crowds, even without respect for the measures to prevent contamination with the corona virus, created tensions between the football authorities and the government.
The global number of deaths from covid-19 in El Salvador so far increased by 19.4% in January, compared to the figure the country closed 2020 by.
Official data from the Department of Health (Minsal), published on a dedicated website and on this government portfolio’s Twitter account, indicates that in the country between March (then the Central American country pandemic) and January 28.
In 261 cases, this number of deaths is higher than the 1,343 calculated on December 31, 2020.
The accumulated number of official infections decreased from 46,515 on December 31 to 53,989 today, with 7,474 new cases so far in January. As a result, the worldwide number of infections rose by 16%.