Rakuten, a professional baseball team that has been infected with the new coronavirus, announced on the 5th that Hayato Yuge was newly infected.
Rakuten has announced that the number of infected people has reached 10 since the start of the season.
Since the 27th of last month, it has been announced that a total of nine players, including Takahiro Norimoto and Yuma Yasuda, a rookie, and one pitcher coach of the 1st Army have been infected with the new coronavirus. Two games with Softbank scheduled for the 2nd and 3rd have been cancelled.
Rakuten announced on the 5th that a new infection with pitcher Yuge was confirmed.
It is said that pitcher Yuge was positive in the PCR test conducted on the 4th.
With this, the number of infected people announced at Rakuten has reached 10 since the start of the season on the 25th of last month.
Pitcher Yuge has already pitched in four games this season, his fourth year as a professional, and has an earned run average of zero, playing an active role as a middle reliever.