China News Service, April 13th. According to the official news of the World Curling Federation, the new crown case that appeared in the 2021 Men's Curling World Championships was confirmed to be a false positive. Close contacts who are isolated in Calgary can now also self-help. go away.
It is reported that on the 9th local time, four participating athletes tested positive for the new crown.
Since then, subsequent matches have been suspended, and the infected and their close contacts have been quarantined.
After obtaining permission from the local public health department, the event continued on the 11th.
But all players on the field must wear masks and be tested before and after each game.
In the subsequent rounds of testing, three of the above four athletes were negative in both rounds of testing, and the other one went through three rounds of testing, and the results of each test were also negative.
After the finals on the evening of the 11th, all athletes and staff received nucleic acid tests again, and the test results were still negative.
After the judgment of the local health bureau, medical personnel and infectious disease experts, the 4 cases whose test results were positive before were considered to be false positives. The reason may be that the test samples were contaminated.
In this event, the Swedish team defeated the Scottish team 10:5 in the final and won the gold medal.
The Chinese team only defeated Denmark and South Korea in the round-robin stage, ranking last with 11 losses and 2 wins.
But as the host team, the Chinese team has automatically qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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