The Copa America trophy is positioned on the sector previous to the opening match between Brazil and Venezuela at Nationwide Stadium in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday
Brazil’s well being ministry has documented 41 instances of COVID-19 associated to the Copa America, together with 31 gamers or staffers and 10 employees who had been employed for the occasion.
The ministry stated in a press release that each one employees who examined optimistic had been in Brasilia, the place Brazil kicked off the match on Sunday with a 3-Zero win over Venezuela. The visiting Venezuela squad was depleted after almost a dozen instances of COVID-19 involving gamers or employees.
Brazil stepped in late as emergency host of the 10-team continental championship regardless of the nation having the second-highest variety of recorded deaths from the coronavirus on this planet, virtually 490,000.
President Jair Bolsonaro supplied to carry the match in Brazil solely two weeks in the past after Argentina and Colombia had been dropped as co-hosts. He’s a critic of social distancing insurance policies and argues the financial impression of shutdown measures kills greater than the virus.
Brazil’s well being ministry stated 2,927 COVID-19 assessments associated to Copa America have been performed to date.
Earlier Monday, one of many Peru squad’s health coaches examined optimistic COVID-19 in Lima. Nestor Bonillo is not going to journey to Brazil. It was not clear whether or not he was counted by Brazil’s well being ministry as one of many confirmed instances associated to the match.
On the weekend, there was a collection of COVID-19 instances associated to groups right here for the match.
Colombia stated its technical assistant Pablo Román and physiotherapist Carlos Entrena have the virus. Hours earlier, Venezuela introduced it had summoned 15 new gamers for the squad at brief discover after eight examined optimistic upon arrival in Brazil. One other three members of the Venezuelan teaching employees had been additionally contaminated.
The Bolivian Soccer Federation stated three gamers and one coach additionally had the virus