Latest news about the coronavirus epidemic at stake around the world:
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The Las Vegas Raiders have placed Maurice Hurst’s defensive version on the reserve list / COVID-19.
Hurst is the first Raiders player on the list since the start of the normal season. The list is used for players who tested positive for coronavirus or who have been in close contact with an inflamed person.
Hurst did not attend the charity last week that led the NFL to fin 10 Raiders players for their conduct on the occasion he violated COVID-19 protocols.
Hurst leads the Raiders this season with quarterback pressures, according to SportRadar.
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The Big Ten says its hockey season will have a 24-game convention calendar and begin on November 13.
Each Big Ten team will also have 4 games more opposed to the State of Arizona.
The Big Ten tournament will have a one-way elimination weekend format and will run from March 18-20.
Big Ten hockey groups will adhere to the same protocols announced through the convention on September 16. These include antigen detection and improved cardiac screening. The state of Arizona will adhere to the same testing protocols.
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Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman will pass the two-day NHL draft in isolation after a recent exposure 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 Detroit’s selection procedure by staying in remote contact with its staff.
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 its 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 there is “a noticeable improvement in hospitalization rate, infection rate and community positivity rate. “
The Packers have already played two of their eight scheduled home games and may not have another home game until November 1 against the Minnesota Vikings.
“We are in the direction in terms of hospitalization and positive cases, and based on the recommendations of public health and network health care officials, it is not advisable to welcome stadium enthusiasts to the games at this time,” Packers CEO Mark Murphy said in a statement.
In 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 estating.
“It’s going to take us all, and I think so, ” said LaFleur. “We just have to stay our players and keep everyone in Array 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.
The 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 game at home without fans and tickets will not be sold when they receive the Atlanta Falcons on October 18, as was the case with the team’s first two games at U. S. Bank Stadium last month.
The Vikings announced Tuesday that they will again have a maximum circle of 250 family members of the team’s workers’ corps for the game to further verify game day protocols in anticipation of game-goers 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 around 40 of the 14 days. Thomas, 27, a member of the team he was scheduled to play will begin Thursday at Aronimink Golf Club just outside Philadelphia in Newtown Square, 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 did not pass the cut at 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 tested coronavirus.
The league says Dal Pino’s control conducted on Monday and 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 for two of his players. The league’s opinion may inflict a 3-0 defeat on Napoli.
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