The opening ceremony of Senbatsu High School Baseball, which will open at Koshien Stadium on the 19th of this month, will be held only by 6 schools that have a match on the first day from the countermeasures against infection with the new coronavirus.
On the 3rd, the Takano Ren = Japan High School Baseball Federation and others held a steering committee for Senbatsu High School Baseball to discuss specific management methods for the tournament based on measures against infection with the new coronavirus.
According to the announcement by Takano Ren and others, it was decided that the opening ceremony, which was supposed to be reduced in scale, will be held with only 6 schools having a match on the first day.
The admission march starts from the place where 6 schools are lined up in the outfield in advance, and takes the form of marching toward the infield one by one, and the video of the other 26 schools marching is shown in the vision of Koshien Stadium.
Also, at the closing ceremony, we will stop giving the winning and runner-up medals to each player and hand them over to the representatives.
In addition, from the 11th to the 15th of this month, a PCR test will be conducted on 1080 athletes and related parties who will participate in the tournament, and the team that won the first round will be given a second test in principle, the day after the match. It means to carry out.
After that, if an infected person appears in the team, the person concerned is promptly re-examined, and the emergency response headquarters attaches importance to whether it is an outbreak or an individual case, and decides whether or not to participate as it is.