5 Corona detectors for every test ... A tempting offer from Calcio clubs

The Corriere dello Sport newspaper reported today, Saturday, that the Serie A clubs will donate five equipment to detect the Corona virus for every examination that each player is subject to when resuming training for the possibility of completing the season.

The report added that the proposal is part of the options presented by the Italian Federation for the popular game and sent it to the government, which will have a final opinion on the possibility of returning the exercises again.

The move comes in response to criticism that football may consume the virus detection equipment needed by health authorities to help other sectors of society in greatest need if matches are allowed to return.

The Italian federation, headed by Gabriele Gravina, hopes to return to training in May, but Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora said last Wednesday that he was not yet ready to set a date for the return.

The National Federation published some details of its proposals in which it was stated that the players and workers in each team, which is a number ranging from 40 to 50 people, must be subjected to detection and then isolated in a training camp to start preparations.

During the first week, each player will train individually, in respect of the guidelines for social distance, and if there are no positive cases, the teams can resume their training normally.

In an interview with the newspaper itself, a virologist said that it would not be necessary to stop the competition entirely if a player fell ill.

Francesco Faya of the Lazaro Spalantsani National Institute for Infectious Diseases added that the reopening of the country, including football, needed "to make sense and follow the flag at the same time".

"We do not have to stop everything if one of the players' samples is positive. The answer is to treat football in the same way as health workers. If we discover that a health worker is infected with the virus, we do not stop everyone from working," he said.

"We put those who treated the patient under observation through blood tests and swabs."