Professional baseball and J-League The policy of uniquely identifying rich contacts and holding the game August 11 16:05
A baseball team and clubs received a series of cases in which professional baseball and soccer J.Leagues held a liaison conference for measures against the new coronavirus, and after the players were infected, the health center could not identify the rich contact person in time and the game was canceled. Agreed to uniquely identify rich contacts and then aim to hold a match with other players.
In professional baseball this month, after the season's opening, players were infected for the first time, and in the J.League, J1 and J2 players also became infected, and the public health center and J. A total of 3 games have been canceled in the league.
In response to this, at the countermeasures liaison meeting on the 11th, if the infectious disease specialist could not identify in time by the public health center, the team or club could identify the concentrated contact person based on the athlete's action record and the expert's opinion. I was advised to identify.
At the meeting after the meeting, professional baseball commissioner Atsushi Saito said, ``In the case of a cluster, cancellation is unavoidable, but in the case of infection confirmation of several players, we will identify the rich contacts as much as possible and play the game. I would like to hold it.” He said that he would decide to hold the event without waiting for the public health center to identify rich contacts.
Ms. Murai Chairman of the J. League said, “It may not be feasible for the public health center to respond to our schedule. It may be swallowed as a risk and held”.
Mitsuo Kaku, a specially appointed professor at Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, said, "We will ask them to keep a good record of their behavior, and the experts will make a comprehensive judgment after confirming the situation and the degree of contact at that time." I was talking.
In addition, at the meeting, we discussed about the emergency test after the infected person appeared in the team, and about the introduction of the antigen test that gives the result quickly because the PCR test takes time to get the result.