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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The handball Bundesliga wants to tighten its hygiene concept in the end of the season.
"It is primarily about a closer frequency of the tests," said HBL managing director Frank Bohmann the "Hamburger Abendblatt" (Monday).
“It cannot be ruled out that some teams show signs of fatigue when adhering to the preventive measures.
We have to urge everyone involved once again to meet their obligations. "
There are already daily quick tests. The PCR test rhythm is now to be stepped up, "because rapid tests can only offer the necessary certainty of always correct results to a limited extent," said the 56-year-old. So far there have been two PCR tests per week. These are to be expanded to at least three. In addition, the documentation requirement is to be tightened in order to be able to determine chains of infection more precisely. In this way, it could be avoided that "in the case of an infected player, the whole team - and recently also the opponent - has to be quarantined for 14 days," said Bohmann.
The HBL managing director complained that “for a long time he had the feeling that the health authorities treated outdoor sports like football differently than indoor sports.
We do not consider the risk in handball to be greater.
The teams play in professional halls that have ventilation systems, ”he said.
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Bohmann rejects a hotel quarantine like in football.
“Instead, we considered playing a final tournament for which the teams would be drawn together in a bubble.
We discarded the idea because only an infected person would trigger a huge snowball effect, ”he said.
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