Olympic-bound race walker KT Irfan and 4 different elite track-and-field athletes have returned damaging for COVID-19 in a confirmatory second take a look at at Sports Authority of India’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru, the nodal physique stated on Friday. It was reported on Thursday that Irfan was amongst 5 athletes who’ve examined constructive for COVID-19 on the SAI’s Centre of Excellence in a weekly take a look at carried out on May 7.
But the SAI on Friday confirmed that each one these athletes, who have gotten their first jab of COVID-19 vaccine on April 29, have returned damaging in the second take a look at carried out on Thursday. “All have examined damaging in the second take a look at carried out yesterday, the outcomes of which got here this morning. All athletes on the SAI campus throughout the nation are being examined on a weekly foundation,” a SAI source told PTI.
A total of 16 tests were conducted on Friday, which included two steeplechase athletes, two male race walkers, a male middle and long distance runner, two female middle and long distance athletes, four para athletes, besides a para coach and an NCOE athlete. Others to test negative are two SAI resident staff and one housekeeping worker.
On Thursday, it came to light that four male and one female athlete, besides four support staff, had tested positive for the deadly virus, following which SAI conducted another round of tests. Last month, five Indian athletes training in the centre — Olympic-bound Priyanka Goswami, Asian Games 1500m gold-medallist Jinson Johnson, long distance runner Parul Chaudhary, steeplechaser Chinta Yadav and another race walker Eknath — had tested positive for the dreaded virus.
Russian race walk coach Alexander Artsybashev had also tested positive at that time. Irfan returned negative at that time after he was tested as a primary contact of Johnson.
The SAI centre had also grappled with COVID-19 infection of Indian women’s hockey captain Rani Rampal, her six team-mates and two support staff members. All of them have since recovered after spending two weeks in quarantine. The SAI centre in Bengaluru is the training base of the men’s and women’s hockey teams and track and field athletes.
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