The figure reflects the country: massive. According to a very official source, no less than 81 Russian athletes resident in national or regional training centers have tested positive for coronavirus. The announcement was made by Alexei Morozov, the director of high performance at the Russian Ministry of Sports. The Russian official explained this on a local television channel, specifying that the Ministry of Sports and the Russian Medical and Biological Agency had joined forces to try to trace the contaminated athletes and all the people who had been in contact with them. “ Positive athletes were evacuated from training centers, explained Alexei Morozov, quoted by the agency TASS. Some of them were hospitalized, the others placed in quarantine. Isolation spaces have been set up in all our preparation centers. » After a period of confinement at the beginning of spring, Russian athletes were authorized to resume training last May. Russia is ranked 4th among the countries most affected by the pandemic, behind the United States, India and Brazil, with more than 1,2 million cases recorded.
