Indian hockey staff ahead Mandeep Singh has examined optimistic for COVID-19, turning into the sixth national player to contract the virus, the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) stated on Monday. The 25-year-old from Jalandhar is asymptomatic and is being handled together with the opposite 5 gamers by medical doctors in Bengaluru, the place the nationwide camp is because of begin on August 20 on the SAI centre. “Mandeep Singh, a member of the Indian Males’s Hockey staff, who was given the Covid check (RT PCR) together with 20 different gamers on the Nationwide Camp at SAI’s Nationwide Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru, has examined COVID optimistic, however is asymptomatic,” the SAI stated in a press release.
“He’s being administered therapy by medical doctors, together with the opposite 5 gamers who’ve examined optimistic.”
Indian captain Manpreet Singh and 4 different gamers had examined optimistic for COVID-19 final week after returning to the SAI Centre following a month-long break.
Defender Surender Kumar, Jaskaran Singh, drag-flicker Varun Kumar and goalkeeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak are the opposite 4 gamers, who examined optimistic.
In keeping with the SAI medical doctors, all of the gamers have been exhibiting “delicate signs” and are doing nicely.
They’re housed within the Nationwide Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
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The gamers have been earlier stranded on the centre for over two months (until June) when a nationwide lockdown was imposed to comprise the coronavirus.
After getting back from the break, the gamers have been in necessary quarantine earlier than the resumption of coaching on the centre.
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