The pandemic back interrupted school sports on Saturday, and Virginia and Virginia Tech postponed their first football game on September 19 due to COVID-19 disorders at Virginia Tech.
Schools said it was a mutual agreement. No recovery date has been announced for the adjustment that had been set for Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium. Virginia Tech won’t play football for four days either.
The postponement is the time for the Hokies since the Atlantic Coast Conference issued a revised timetable. His inaugural game, scheduled for September 12 in opposition to the state of North Carolina, was postponed two weeks after a COVID-19 outbreak in the state of North Carolina.
Virginia is now scheduled to open its season in October at No. 1 Clemson.
On its website, Virginia Tech reported Friday that it had had 219 positive tests for coronavirus in the last seven days, bringing the total number of infections to 633 since testing began on August 3. The numbers are higher since the return of academics. August 24.
The school has published the specific results of athletes.
Virginia unveiled its most recent figures for athletes and sports on Saturday, saying it has had five positive tests since the last update on September 4 and has not had a positive result since the first report on July 24.
“The protection and physical and intellectual well-being of these young men and women entrusted to us through their families remains our most sensitive priority,” Hokies Sports Director Whit Babcock said in a statement.
“While we share the sadness of everyone hoping to start football season in front of our rival in the state, we remain positive that a full ACC football schedule can be played thanks to the flexibility allowed by the existing format,” Babcock said.
On Twitter, some of Virginia’s coaches congratulated their players.
“It’s that undeniable Array . . . either you’re attached to your team or not,” offensive line coach Garett Tujague tweeted. “There are those who can sacrifice for others and then there are those who CANNOT. The most productive thing you can do is make that decision. “
Runners coach Mark Atuaia highlighted the “serious sacrifices” of his players.
“My center is going to come out because no one gives credit to the disciple my younger brothers have shown since the pandemic hit,” he tweeted. “My young UVA brothers are AMAZING !!!”
Conferences that take a position with an otoñal football season require their schools to review athletes 3 times a week, and a dozen games have already been postponed due to those results, which require quarantine for other inflamed and well-known people through contract tracking. the ones that test positive.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that anyone who spends at least 15 minutes within 1. 80 meters of an inflamed user with COVID-19 is a high-risk touch and asks for about 40 14 days. touching, sneezing or coughing through an inflamed user.
The NCAA has followed these criteria in its back-to-game guidelines.
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