Fully satisfied with SAI Bengaluru’s measures: Batra

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President Narinder Batra on Wednesday mentioned he spoke to officers and gamers on the Sports Authority of India’s (SAI) Bengaluru centre and is satisfied that none of them interacted with the one that died as a result of a cardiac arrest and examined positive for coronavirus.

“I have been in touch with Hockey India and I am fully satisfied with the way SAI Bangalore center has been kept safe and sanitised,” mentioned Batra.

“SAI administration is doing its best to handle the issue at hand and there is no reason to panic. We have spoken to officials and players staying in SAI Bangalore, it is clear that none of them have interacted with the person who tested Covid-19 positive. Any report suggesting that they did, is incorrect.”

SAI mentioned on Wednesday that the Senior Director accountable for the centre has been directed to take all needed precautions as per the well being pointers issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to make sure that all gamers and employees housed contained in the campus are secure. The centre is the place various main Indian athletes have been staying all through the lockdown that began on March 25.

Among the athletes who’re on the facility embody India males’s and ladies’s senior hockey gamers and 10 members of the athletics squad who’re all coaching for the postponed Tokyo Olympics. The incident now signifies that the gamers must be confined to their rooms and the power will likely be sanitised as per the protocol.

The growth comes at a time when the Sports Ministry and SAI are formulating a plan for out of doors coaching to renew in Bengaluru and the National Institute of Sport (NIS) in Patiala for athletes who’re certain for the Olympics or within the fray for qualification.