SAI Bengaluru: Outdoor training on hold as COVID positive cook dies

The look forward to athletes to coach outside on the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru is now set to be longer after one of many cooks there handed away and in addition later examined positive for coronavirus. The centre is the place plenty of main Indian athletes have been staying all through the lockdown that began on March 25.

Among the athletes who’re on the facility embrace India males’s and girls’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 should 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 outside coaching to renew in Bengaluru and the National Institute of Sport (NIS) in Patiala for athletes who’re sure for the Olympics or within the fray for qualification.

SAI, nonetheless, rejected the experiences that the prepare dinner had been in a gathering which was attended by round 30 individuals.

“Whoever was there in the meeting, only five people were there including the person who died. So the other four have been sent on quarantine.

“He was in the administrative block and that’s separate from the residential block where the players stay. They have not been allowed to come out of their rooms at all. It is not like that they met too many times,” a SAI official advised IANS.

“Protocol makes it imperative to test everyone and it takes 24 hours for the results to come in. The day after he died, it was found out that he was COVID positive but he died of cardiac arrest.”

The official mentioned that the method of sanitising the power could take upto 5 days.