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Due to new corona cases at SSV Jahn Regensburg, the game in the DFB Cup quarter-finals against Werder Bremen has been canceled.

After head coach Mersad Selimbegovic, further infections occurred at the second division club, Jahn managing director Christian Keller reported on Monday.

It was a "few" people, at most minimal cold symptoms had occurred in some individuals.

How did it spread?

Lots of question marks.

About how many people and who exactly it is, Keller did not reveal.

The entire SSV supervisory team and the team would now have to be in a two-week quarantine.

The game management canceled the cup game scheduled for Tuesday (6.30 p.m.).

"The background is the officially ordered quarantine measures for the Jahn Regensburg association," it said.

The DFB will decide on the rescheduling of the game in coordination with both clubs as soon as possible.

Keller said that Selimbegovic was infected with the British mutant, which is considered particularly contagious.

The already strict protective measures were then probably "no longer strong enough".

“We weren't any less careful or less attentive, everything went as it always did.

That's why we can't really explain it to ourselves. "

Frequency of tests increased to every day

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Selimbegovic had already tested positive for the corona virus on Friday and missed the second division game against Paderborn on the same evening (1-0).

All other actors in the rule test were negative, the game could take place according to the hygiene concept of the German Football League.

The 38-year-old reported to the “Mittelbayerische Zeitung” shortly afterwards that he had no symptoms.

Nor could he explain where he could have been infected.

"This is now again an exceptional situation in a state of emergency," said Selimbegovic.

He followed the victory in quarantine at home, his assistant Sebastian Dreier represented him on the sidelines.

"Mersad is inconsolable," said Keller before the cup cracker, which Jahn dubbed the biggest game in the club's history.

After the Corona case with the coach, the club even increased the frequency of the tests to every day.

Many negative tests came back on Sunday evening, some were missing.

These missing tests then all came back positive on Monday morning.

"I cannot explain it to myself because we have been very careful to reduce contacts since April 2020," said Keller, referring to the restart of professional football in the corona pandemic.

The Regensburg team assume that the next two league games at VfL Osnabrück on March 7th and at home against SpVgg Greuther Fürth on March 13th cannot take place as originally scheduled.

According to Jahn, Bremen is not an isolated case.

"We were all really looking forward to this game," said Keller, "now it has hit us too."