Bundesliga set to restart on May 15 despite 10 positive Covid-19 cases

Bundesliga set to restart on May 15

Reuters reporters Sabine Siebold and Andreas Rinke have announced that the German top flight, the Bundesliga, appears set to resume the 2019-20 season on May 15.

Readers are told that “German states are set to allow the Bundesliga soccer league to resume matches, probably from May 15, under strict conditions without fans in stadiums, the sources said.”

The hope is that the Bundesliga will receive the official green light to restart on Wednesday.

That’s when German chancellor Angela Merkel will have a teleconference with state leaders about how Germany plans to ease social distancing restrictions during the Covid-19 crisis.

Germany to reopen all shops, allow soccer matches: sources https://t.co/r0SfSK189A pic.twitter.com/yLcazVCZmZ

— Reuters (@Reuters) May 4, 2020

 

10 positive Covid-19 cases in Germany

News of the continued plans to press for the Bundesliga’s restart come a day after 10 new positive Covid-19 cases were revealed in Germany football.

Last Friday, Bundesliga side Cologne confirmed that two players and a physio had contracted the virus.

Yesterday, Stuttgart also confirmed that they were treating one inconclusive test as a positive Covid-19 case.

It’s unclear which other clubs have seen employees test positive during the pandemic.

However, as reported in the New York Times, “the majority of individuals who tested positive are believed to be asymptomatic.”

Of course, that also means that some of the people are showing symptoms.

Yet, the 10 positive test results can be seen as proof that the Bundesliga’s Covid-19 protocols work.

All clubs in the Bundesliga have been returning to training through a fixed protocol of social distancing measures.

Those measures included breaking the squad up into small groups in the early weeks of training.

By revealing positive cases now, before the season resumes, the hope is that German football can root out anyone with Covid-19 to ensure that everyone inside German football remain uninfected.

Until there’s a vaccine it’s almost inevitable there will be some positive tests along the way. 10 out of more than 1700 tests, understand, is at the lower end of the Bundesliga’s estimates, where some were expecting cases around the 40 mark. https://t.co/wkPyWCN5L2

— tariq panja (@tariqpanja) May 4, 2020

 

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