US Open Reveals What Happens If A Player Tests COVID-19 Positive

The US Open is trying to pull off one of the most important sporting events of the year. Considering the difficulty of the task and safety dangers involved, everyone has very high expectations from all the organizers.

It is obvious that if anything goes wrong, the entire idea of going ahead with the tournament will be called into question. That’s why the tournament is going for a blanket strategy that can help alleviate all the concerns. One of the primary aspects will be a stringent follow up of the primary health guidelines.

Recently, the who’s who of the organization conducted a press conference. Therein, some vital information was revealed. One of the primary ones related to the measures in place if a player did turn coronavirus positive.

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What will happen if a tennis player turns COVID-19 positive at the US Open?

This question was taken up by Dr. Brian Hainline, who’s the chief medical officer of NCAA. He revealed the strategies that will be employed to deal with a COVID-19 positive tennis player.

“There are strategies in place. So what if someone does become positive? Well, because we are all physically distancing at this wonderful event, these two events in a period of a few weeks, because we will be universally masking when there’s any possibility of interacting with someone else, that already is the most important strategy we have to prevent this disease from spreading to others.”

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“The plan is really in place, the physical distancing plan is in place, the testing plan is in place. We are confident that we can pull this off not only in a manner that assures the safety of everyone else, but more importantly in a manner that really is going to be an essential aspect of bringing back a physical manifestation of hope for our society.”

We are pretty sure that the authorities are doing their best. They will surely not take any risk with the health of the players. Let’s hope that the tournament happens smoothly without any player facing a health problem.