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The corona outbreak at Hertha BSC is apparently even worse than originally thought.

After the positive corona tests with head coach Pal Dardai, his assistant Admir Hamzagic and striker Dodi Lukebakio, there is apparently another suspected case among the Berlin professionals.

This is reported by "Bild".

Instead of starting an isolated quarantine in a Berlin hotel as planned and isolating themselves there in coordination with the health department, Hertha's players drove home after training on Thursday afternoon, according to the report.

If the renewed suspicion of corona is confirmed, there are far-reaching consequences.

“If that were true and this infection came from the team chain, then it is over - then the entire Hertha BSC team has to be quarantined at home for 14 days.

Then the game operation cannot be maintained ", emphasized Detlef Wagner, district councilor for social affairs and health of the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, opposite" Bild ".

Wagner made it clear that there would be no “Lex Hertha”.

DFL tightened hygiene concept

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Before the already complicated final spurt of the season, Dardai, Lukebakio and assistant coach Hamzagic had to go into quarantine at home.

Assistant trainer Andreas Neuendorf was classified as a first-degree contact person because he is also a close confidante of Dardai in private, and is also in quarantine.

All those affected are symptom-free, the Bundesliga club said so far.

After consultation with the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf health department, the entire team, coaching team and close employees around the cadre should actually be isolated in a joint quarters until April 28 and not sent into quarantine at home.

This also applied to trainer's son Marton Dardai as contact person K2, as he no longer lives in his parents' house.

"The bubble is very important in this phase," said District Councilor Wagner.

But he also added: "Everyone is under close observation, the health department is looking closely."

It remains to be seen whether the positive tests at Hertha will revive the deliberations that the entire league should go to a quarantine training camp in the end of the season.

The German Football League (DFL) had initially decided, on the recommendation of the Sports Medicine / Special Game Operations Task Force, headed by national team doctor Tim Meyer, to further tighten its hygiene concept in view of the increasing number of infections.

However, even this cannot guarantee one hundred percent security, as the latest cases at Hertha show.