Professional baseball Oryx personnel have almost no contact with corona-infected players 23:39, July 31st

Orix, a professional baseball player, announced that a male employee in his 40s who was on the team until the 27th of this month was infected with the new coronavirus.

According to the team, this male employee belongs to the management department of the team, and the family living together was infected with the new coronavirus, so the result of the PCR test on the 30th was determined to be positive.

Staff members do not have symptoms such as coughing, and they left the team on an expedition on the 27th, the day after their family members had symptoms, and are now standing by at their home in Higashi-Osaka, Osaka.

The public health center is promoting the identification of rich contacts based on the staff's behavior history, but according to the team, it means that there is almost no contact with athletes.

ORIX tested 170 people including athletes and staff on the 17th and 18th of this month, and all were negative at this time, including male staff.

ORIX's Hideki Morikawa team general manager said, "We take the infection from the team very seriously. Since we have taken the latest precautions to prevent infection, today we have a match. I would like to carry out inspections as needed."