The entire professional workforce of L’Elan bearnais Pau-Lacq-Orthez is now positive for Covid-19 after new tests carried out on Friday, the basketball club announced in a press release published on the evening of Sunday, October 4.
Elan Béarnais explains that “Following the identification of a Covid-19 cluster (…) Monday September 28 (eleven people including four professional players), all contact cases were tested on Friday October 2. These new tests were positive for five other professional players ”. It is therefore “All the professional staff who are concerned, as well as almost all of the Hopes staff”, underlines the Béarn club.
The two teams stopped
“The two teams are at a standstill, the club continuing to apply the health protocol of the National Basketball League (LNB). Each person tested positive is supervised and benefits from a medical follow-up, just like his entourage “, specifies the same press release. People who tested positive Monday, September 28 will take a new test on Monday, the club adds.
Under the health protocol of the LNB, Pau, whose match against Le Mans scheduled for September 28 had been postponed until the last moment, should see the one against Monaco scheduled for October 12, also postponed.
