Professional baseball and J League “Corona regular inspection” Experts' opinion June 8 18:08
Professional baseball and soccer J League held a "Countermeasure Liaison Meeting" to discuss countermeasures against the new coronavirus, and experts from infectious diseases regularly conduct PCR tests on all athletes and staff to ensure safety. It was said that it was necessary to hold a match after confirming in advance whether there was an infected person.
The countermeasures liaison meeting was held online, and representatives of professional baseball and J.League heard opinions from infectious disease experts.
At the conference, it is necessary for experts to regularly carry out PCR test of new coronavirus for all athletes and staffs to ensure safety, and to check if there are any infected people before holding the match. I was told that.
It is around a PCR test, including the first inspection in prospect this month 20 days J-League was before the resumption of the official game, create a readiness to perform a one-time inspection in the next two weeks to the target, such as players and referees It shows the policy. On the other hand, in professional baseball, there has never been a policy of unifying 12 baseball teams.
At the conference after the meeting, Professor Hiroshige Mikamo of Aichi Medical University graduate school said, ``We proposed that the first inspection should be conducted before the opening of the baseball and that the inspection should be performed once a month after that. We also showed that it can be divided into regular inspections and emergency response inspections for people who have a fever or poor physical condition."
In response to this, Commissioner Atsushi Saito said, “I had a plan for the preliminary inspection, which is important in the execution of the match. I would like to decide what kind of system should be used for the regular inspection. All 12 teams should understand. I hope."
J-League "Inspection guidelines tomorrow"
On the 9th, soccer J-League Mitsuru Murai Chairman of each club was informed that experts needed to regularly perform PCR test for athletes etc. in order to restart the game at the measures liaison meeting. At the executive committee in which the representatives participated, he showed the idea of determining guidelines for inspection as a league.
In the J-League, already in the last week of the Board of Directors, to prospect this month 20 days, shows a single policy to perform a PCR test in two weeks to target, such as players and referees.
Murai Chairman said in the interview after the meeting, "There are some parts to think while running. I want to upgrade the version that can be used at present while checking legal regulations and medical administration." He made it clear that the guidelines will be updated as circumstances change.