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The Uruguayan Basketball League 2019-2020 returns to the scene this Tuesday with the third games of the semifinals to the best of five games and with a strict sanitary protocol that includes a bubble for the four leading clubs.
Take extreme care. Reducing the risk of contagion and being able to return to official activity were the great premises of the Uruguayan Federation of BasketBall (FUBB) for the return of the tournament that is in full defining stage.
watery, National, Trouville Y Urunday University are the protagonists of these instances and this Tuesday basketball returns to the scene in the Antel Arena in what will be a start over for the four clubs seeking the champion title.
The health bubble
The sports authorities established a strict protocol that includes a bubble to which the members of the schools entered this Monday after having made the corresponding swabs on Friday, February 5.
“A bubble of these characteristics has the main objective of isolating the protagonists from contact with the outside environment that has nothing to do with basketball in this case to reduce the risk of contagion,” he explained to Ovation the Dr. José Veloso.
The Hotel Aloft Punta Carretas was the place chosen by the organization to carry out the bubble in which the four clubs will be, all on different floors. In addition, the rooms, as far as possible, will be individual and in the event that they are shared, it is sought that a person who has already had the disease with another who has not yet suffered the infection.
Each delegation will have a maximum of 20 people including players, coaching staff, leaders and staff of the institution and will travel in a sanitized bus from the hotel to training sessions and games.
Trouville vs. Urunday. Photo: basketuruguay.uy
Care at the Antel Arena
The Antel Arena will once again be the setting for the dispute of the matches of the Uruguayan Basketball League and it will also have many sanitary restrictions for the return of official activity.
On the one hand, the use of changing rooms will not be allowed so the clubs will arrive directly from the health bubble to the field, the coaches will have a place assigned for the technical talks and immediately after each meeting the teams will return to the hotel.
Also, there will be different areas for the media who will work on stage. For example, Tenfield personnel who will be in charge of transmission should swab every five days as they will be within the red area.
The media that occupy a place in the yellow area may fulfill their functions at the Antel Arena but are not authorized to have direct contact with the protagonists of the matches.
What if there is a contagion?
As the protagonists are part of a health bubble, in case a contagion of coronavirus, the patient will be automatically isolated in his room and separated from the partner if he has one.
In addition, a swab will be carried out on the contact and also on the entire delegation of the club in question during the next 72 hours to try to prevent an outbreak of COVID-19.
Aguada and Nacional will play on Tuesday at 9:30 pm at Antel Arena .. Photo: basketuruguay.uy
The return of basketball
This Tuesday, February 9, the Uruguayan Basketball League 2019-2020 returns with two games at the Antel Arena that will be the third points of the tournament semifinals.
From the hour 19:15 they will play Trovuille (1) and Urunday academic (1) with the arbitration of Julio Dutra, Gastón Rodríguez and Washington Chamorro, while at the second hour and from 9:30 p.m. they will be measured National (1) and watery (1) with Gonzalo Salgueiro, Diego Ortíz and Valentina Dorrego.