16 India males’s hockey gamers amongst 33 new Covid-19 circumstances in SAI Bengaluru

The Sports Authority of India (SAI) stated 16 males’s hockey gamers, who’re coaching for the FIH Pro League in South Africa, are amongst 33 new Covid-19 circumstances which have been detected in Bengaluru. The males’s group is coaching for the FIH Pro League. (Representational picture)HIGHLIGHTSOne coach has additionally examined optimistic within the males’s hockey camp15 have examined optimistic among the many junior girls’s hockey teamTwo optimistic circumstances have come up within the senior girls’s hockey teamA coach and 16 gamers from the nationwide males’s hockey camp have examined optimistic for Covid-19 within the Sports Authority of India’s (SAI) National Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru. The camp is happening in preparation for the FIH Pro League during which India are set to participate from February 8.

“33 positive Covid-19 cases have been found from a total of 128 test results at the SAI National Centre of Excellence, Bengaluru,” stated SAI in its assertion.”16 athletes and one coach from the Senior Men’s Hockey team, training at the centre ahead of the upcoming FIH Pro League in South Africa, have tested positive. They are all asymptomatic,” it additional stated.SAI stated that 15 members of the junior girls’s nationwide camp, coaching for the junior Women’s World Cup, have examined optimistic. “While 3 are asymptomatic, 12 of them are symptomatic,” it stated.The two different optimistic members represent a Senior Women Hockey group participant, who’s symptomatic and a masseuse from the Athletics group.SAI had earlier stated that shut all 67 of its coaching facilities throughout the nation on account of rising Covid-19 circumstances. However, elite athletes had been allowed to proceed their nationwide camps in strictly-enforced bio-bubbles.Click right here for IndiaRight this moment.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.