The club does not receive special treatment compared to other bodies in Germany, after the team was allowed to continue training despite the presence of three cases of coronavirus infection, the first football doctor in the German soccer club, Paul Klein, said on Saturday.
"We do not have any special rules. It is not true that in similar cases in another particular area, everyone will have to enter quarantine. There are clear guidelines on how to deal with people in contact with the injured," Klein said in an interview with the club's website.
On Friday evening, Cologne reported that there were three people infected with the Coruna virus, and they were discovered through tests that took place on Thursday, as all clubs are preparing for the possibility of returning the league this month, according to instructions from the German League League and German Federation work group.
It was reported that the three injured, two players and a physiotherapist, were scheduled to enter quarantine for two weeks and would be tested again before being allowed to return.
Klein said that the health authorities communicated with the three injured, and that anyone who communicated with them directly must be quarantined, but the training could continue because the team trained in small groups, according to the rules of social separation, which reduce risks.
Klein stressed: "This is how the health authorities see the situation. Therefore, there is no need to enter into a collective quarantine."
"The main condition for this, of course, is that we have now started the tests, and we will continue to conduct the tests continuously, this ensures that those whose results of their analysis are negative will participate in the exercise, and then we know who carries the virus and who does not carry it, this is the idea behind the medical concept To the German League. "