Professional baseball and Nippon-Ham announced that three people, including Yuki Nomura, who is the main player in the batting line, have been newly confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
With this, 24 people have been confirmed to be infected with Nippon-Ham from the 16th to the 22nd of this month.
According to Nippon-Ham, as a result of a PCR test conducted by the 1st Army on the 21st, infections of Nomura, Renato Núñez, and Takeharu Kato, a pitcher coach, were confirmed.
Nippon-Ham played against Orix at Kyocera Dome Osaka on the 21st, Núñez participated as a substitute, and pitcher Kato was on the bench.
In addition, Nomura was not registered as a player in the 1st Army on the 21st because he had a fever.
From the 16th to the 22nd of this month, the number of infected people confirmed by Nippon-Ham is 24, including director Tsuyoshi Shinjo, 7 coaches, 12 players, and 4 staff.
From the 23rd, Nippon-Ham is scheduled to play two consecutive games with Lotte at Sapporo Dome as the final card of the first half of the game.