Pullela Gopichand. (File Photo: IANS)
Coach Arun Vishnu’s constructive COVID-19 check final week had compelled the Pullela Gopichand Academy to shut down for two days.
- PTI Hyderabad
- Last Updated:March 31, 2021, 18:26 IST
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The Pullela Gopichand Academy has reopened after being compelled to shut down for two days following coach Arun Vishnu’s constructive COVID-19 check final week. The academy was shut for sanitisation on Friday and Saturday, adopted by the weekly off on Sunday and the vacation on account of Holi on Monday. It resumed operations on Tuesday.
“The academy was shut for two days on Friday and Saturday after coach Arun Vishnu tested positive for COVID-19,” a supply within the Gopichand Academy advised PTI. Apart from PV Sindhu, who’s coaching on the Gachibowli stadium, all prime Indian shuttlers together with, Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, are coaching right here.
“We tested all the players who were training under him on Saturday. All of them tested negative, so after Holi which was on Monday, the academy was again operational from Tuesday,” the sources added.
The academy had shut down final 12 months as effectively when shuttler N Sikki Reddy and physiotherapist had examined constructive for the dreaded virus.
