Official announcement of the Tour de France.
China News Service, September 9th. According to the news announced by the Tour de France Organizing Committee, after the latest round of nucleic acid tests on all participating drivers and staff, the results showed that all the drivers were not infected, but the race Director Prudom and four staff from different teams tested positive.
According to the announcement, this is Prudorm's fourth test in a month, and he will start self-isolation for 7 days from now on.
Prior to this, he had not had close contact with the driver.
The report stated that Prudom was asymptomatic.
He himself stated that he would leave the event for a week like people infected during other events.
At present, no other contestants have been found to have new confirmed cases of infection, so the contest will continue.
After two consecutive days of mountain stages, the players entered the tenth stage on the 8th after passing the first rest day of the event on the 7th.
The Tour de France Organizing Committee will conduct the next round of COVID-19 testing on all drivers and staff on the next rest day, which is the 14th local time.
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