Professional baseball Hanshin Fujinami and other three players announce new coronavirus infection March 27 15:53
Professional baseball Hanshin announced that three players, including pitcher Shintaro Fujinami, were infected with the new coronavirus.
According to Hanshin, the new coronavirus was infected by 25 years old in the eighth year, pitcher Fujinami, 30 years old in the ninth year, Junta Ito and 25 years old in the fourth year, Kenya Nagasaka There are three players in total.
Since the 21st of this month, the three complained of unpleasant smells and tastes, such as "I do not feel the smell when drinking coffee" or "I do not taste the miso soup".
Under these circumstances, a new coronavirus test revealed that the test was positive late on the night of the 26th.
According to the team, three are hospitalized, of which Fujinami and Ito have no symptoms such as coughs and fever, and their physical discomfort has been improved, but Nagasaka still has uncomfortable odor and taste. That is.
It is not known how the three people were infected, but on 14th of this month, a total of 12 Hanshin players, including the three, and five non-team-related athletes went to one of their acquaintances' homes. It means that we had a meal.
The team banned athletes and team officials, including team members, from being out of the company in principle at first, and was banned from going out. We will investigate the health status of close contacts while receiving the advice of
"We are sorry to hear that three people have been infected for the first time in the professional baseball world, and we are sorry for the inconvenience. We will take measures in cooperation with related parties and resume training as soon as possible. I will return to the normal pace and work hard in time for the opening of the season on April 24. "