Latest news about the coronavirus epidemic at stake around the world:
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Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman will pass the two-day NHL draft in isolation after recently being exposed to coVID-19 positives.
Yzerman has no symptoms and several control effects have been negative, the team announced on Tuesday, just over an hour before the start of the first draft circular. Yzerman will oversee the Detroit draft procedure by keeping in touch with his staff remotely.
The Red Wings have 10 picks in the seven-round draft, starting with No. four in general.
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Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, has decided as the control site for COVID-19.
Testing at Miller Park will begin on October 19.
The resolution comes when the Wisconsin National Guard plans to close its facility on October 17.
Miller Park will have the capacity to register up to 2,000 more people depending on the day, the same amount as the combined capacity of the two National Guard verification facilities.
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Tony Finau tested positive for coronavirus before he opened the shriners children’s hospital, the world’s 16th player withdrew from the first of two PGA Tour stops in Las Vegas.
The quarantine car would also keep him out of the CJ Cup at Shadow Creek next week in Las Vegas.
Finau said he felt smart and was in a different way in a good mood.
He is the tenth player to positive since the PGA Tour resumed his schedule on June 8 and has since hosted 18 tournaments in 14 states and the Dominican Republic, adding up the US Open in New York.
Finau’s positive result is the first since Scottie Scheffler and Sam Horsfield before the US Open last month.
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The Green Bay Packers say any plan to have home games enthusiasts this season is on “indefinite suspension” due to high COVID-19 rates in the area.
Packers officials say enthusiasts will be admitted until they particularly improve the hospitalization rate, infection rate and positivity rate. “
The Packers have already played two of their 8 scheduled house games and may not have another home game until November 1 against the Minnesota Vikings.
“We’re heading in the direction in terms of hospitalization and positive cases, and based on the recommendations of public physical care and physical health officials, it’s not advisable to welcome stadium enthusiasts to the games right now,” Packers CEO Mark Murphy said in a prayer.
During his Zoom consultation after the Packers’ 30-16 win over the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night, Packers coach Matt LaFleur asked others to wear a mask and practice social distancing.
“It’s going to take us all, and I mean it, ” said LaFleur. “We just have to stay our players and stay all because it’s important.
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The Memphis Tigers will be allowed more than double their home audience to nearly 12,000 spectators in the stands at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium starting with their October 17 game against UCF.
On Tuesday, he announced the move after Shelby County Department of Health eased restrictions that require 12 feet among enthusiasts and 6 feet.
Athletic director Laird Veatch said he was looking to have more enthusiasts available for a vital game, a construction imaginable as enthusiasts followed the protection protocols during the last game of the Tigers’ house.
Memphis fell from the AP Top 25 after a loss to SMU last week and ended in the Tigers’ first game since their first game on September 5. The Tigers had to postpone a game with Houston until December and cancel a game with UT-San Antonio due to tests and positive coronavirus contacts. Memphis recently fired 19 other people in the sports department, with scheduled free time until the end of the existing fiscal year.
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The Cincinnati Bengals will be allowed to double their audience to 12,000 for all six games at Paul Brown Stadium.
The state of Ohio on Tuesday allowed the team to increase the limit after last Sunday’s maximum crowd of more than 6,000 showed “healthy and safe” behavior. Social estinement and facial politics will be necessary.
The Bengals receive the Cleveland Browns on October 25. The first home game at the stadium on September 13 without fans.
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The Minnesota Vikings will play at least one more home game without fans and no tickets will be sold when they host the Atlanta Falcons on Oct. 18, as was the case in the team’s first two games at U. S. Bank Stadium last month.
The Vikings announced Tuesday that they will have up to 250 members of the team’s family circle for the game to check the adjustment day protocols in anticipation of the option for enthusiasts to attend the fites later in the season.
They have worked with the state and municipal government to allow a limited number of enthusiasts, however, existing COVID-19 infection rates in Minnesota and corresponding national rules for indoor meetings will keep the doors closed for the time being.
The next to welcome Viking enthusiasts would be the Detroit game on November 8.
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Iowa supporter Djimon Colbert and defensive lineman Taajhir McCall have to withdraw from the 2020 football season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Colbert finished thirteen games last season and recorded 61 tackles, one interception and four break passes. McCall didn’t play in the first year last year.
The Hawkeyes open on October 24 in Purdue.
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Charlotte Thomas retired from the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship after her youngest daughter was tested for coronavirus.
Thomas gave up because she is in close contact with the caddie and will start approximately 40 out of 14 days. Thomas, 27, a member of the team scheduled to play, will begin Thursday at Aronimink Golf Club, just outside Newtown Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Thomas, a rookie in 2019, tied for 54th in the ShopRite LPGA Classic last weekend and 35th in the Cambia Portland Classic last month, but failed to cut in Ana Inspiration, the last women’s primary.
Isi Gabsa is now in the box of the PGA Women’s Championship and Paula Challenge is the first substitute.
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Serie A president Paolo Dal Pino was tested for the coronavirus.
The league says Dal Pino’s control conducted on Monday added that the symptomatic and remote president at home.
Series A’s handling of the virus has been the highlight after Napoli refused a Juventus match on Sunday following positive testing from two of his players.
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