Olympic-bound race walker Okay T Irfan, 4 others take a look at constructive for COVID-19 in SAI Bengaluru

Olympic-bound race walker Okay T Irfan is amongst 5 elite track-and-field athletes who’ve examined constructive for COVID-19 on the Sports Authority of India’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
The assessments have been carried out final Friday and those that returned constructive have been stored underneath quarantine.
“At least five elite athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 when tests were conducted on Friday. They have been kept isolated from others,” a supply on the SAI Centre instructed PTI on circumstances of anonymity.
The supply stated one other male race walker additionally examined constructive however his title couldn’t be confirmed.
“4 male players and 1 female player and 4 support staff tested positive for COVID-19,” a SAI supply said.
“The feminine participant had come from dwelling. The gamers have been examined on sixth and their outcomes got here constructive on seventh. They obtained their first vaccine dose on twenty ninth April.
“One male player and one female player were not vaccinated. They have been tested again on the 10th and their results are awaited tomorrow. One athlete would also be tested once more in 2-3 days’ time.”
It is learnt that not one of the feminine race walkers are amongst those that returned constructive.
The 31-year-old Irfan had certified for the Tokyo Olympics approach again in early 2019 after ending fourth within the 20 km occasion of the Asian Race Walking Championships in Nomi, Japan.
The SAI supply stated the entire hockey crew coaching on the Centre apart from one participant has examined detrimental.
“This one hockey player will be tested again tomorrow,” the SAI supply stated, with out giving the title of the participant.
Last month, 5 Indian athletes coaching right here — Olympic-bound Priyanka Goswami, Asian Games 1500m gold-medallist Jinson Johnson, lengthy distance runner Parul Chaudhary, steeplechaser Chinta Yadav and one other race walker Eknath — had examined constructive for the dreaded virus.
Russian race stroll coach Alexander Artsybashev had additionally examined constructive at the moment.
Irfan returned detrimental at the moment after he was examined as a major contact of Johnson.
The SAI Centre had additionally grappled with COVID-19 an infection of Indian ladies’s hockey captain Rani Rampal, her six team-mates and two help workers members. All of them have since recovered after spending two weeks in quarantine.
The SAI Centre, Bengaluru is the coaching base of the lads’s and ladies’s hockey groups and monitor and area athletes.