Professional baseball player Yakult announced that Shingo Kawabata has been waiting at home for two weeks because he was newly judged by the health center as a close contact with the new coronavirus.
This is the third person to leave the team as a close contact.
At Yakult, Akihisa Nishida and one team staff member received a positive test for the new coronavirus in a PCR test conducted on March 30.
Then, on March 31, Nori Aoki and two veterans of Seiichi Uchikawa were judged to be close contacts by the public health center, and on the 1st, Kawabata was newly judged to be a close contact. , I was waiting at home for 2 weeks.
In his 16th year as a professional player, 33-year-old Kawabata participated in the DeNA match on the 31st and 30th as a substitute, and his registration as a player in the 1st army was canceled before the match on the 1st.
On the other hand, Tetsuto Yamada and Naomichi Nishiura, who were removed from the participation player registration on the 31st because the team may have close contact on their own, were subsequently judged by the public health center not to be close contacts, so a special case Instead of waiting for the usual 10 days of using it, I was re-registered as a player for one day.
In addition, pitcher Taichi Yamano, a rookie in second place in the draft, who was also judged not to be a close contact, will be registered as a player in the 1st Army for the first time on the 1st, and will start the game against DeNA on the night of the 1st.