The National Baseball Commission (CNB) of Cuba recognized the detection of six other cases of Covid-19 in the Industriales team, so after diagnosing five positives last week, 11 patients in the ninth are most followed by Cuban ball.
For that reason, the sports authorities have decided that the team will no longer play in the National Baseball Series for the remainder of 2020. Starting in January, the team will get back what it needs to qualify for the postseason.
According to a press release, the CNB indicated that since the first cases occurred, the team was “quarantined in a hotel facility, where a second real-time PCR test was conducted last Saturday,” the official site reported. Jit.
The CNB statement ensures that “all sick athletes are hospitalized and receive the care determined by the national health system.”
The authorities assured that they are evaluating the causes and conditions that caused the contamination according to what is stipulated in the Rules of the 60th National Series.
After becoming aware of the contamination on December 16, the CNB decided on the matches of the sub-series between Industriales and Pinar del Río, a province to which the residents of the capital had traveled and from which they returned after learning of the outbreak. to suspend.
On that occasion, a source close to the athletes DIARIO DE CUBA assured that the detection tests for the new coronavirus had been extended to all players from Pinar del Río and those from Isla de la Juventud, a team that had faced the main residents. the weekend before.
To date there is no information about the outcome of those exams.
Industriales has spent most of the season with some of its key figures on the disabled list and, with a dozen games remaining until the end of the regular schedule, it’s still out of the qualifying zone.