Professional baseball Softbank announced that it has been confirmed that five players including pitcher Tsuyoshi Wada, a coach, and two staff members, a total of eight people, have been newly infected with the new coronavirus.
It was confirmed that he was newly infected with
the
new
corona
virus
. There are a total of eight players, including
five pitcher players,
Yuichi Honda, infield defense coach, and
two staff members
.
According to the team, on the 27th, eight people were confirmed to be infected by a PCR test targeting all athletes in the 1st army, and some people had symptoms such as fever.
Of these, Pitcher Wada was the starting pitcher for the Rakuten match on the 19th of this month, reaching a total of 150 wins in Japan and the United States, and was scheduled to start the Lotte match to be held at Tokyo Dome on the night of the 27th.
The starting pitcher has been changed to Kotaro Otake.
In addition, it was announced on the 25th that Takayuki Murakami's hitting coach was confirmed to be infected, and the number of infected people is one after another.