At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, three team members from Italy and Slovenia tested positive for Corona.
The Nordic World Ski Championships will take place despite the corona pandemic, but without spectators.
There is a lot of testing going on in Oberstdorf, but now the FIS World Federation has reported three positive cases.
The three team members went into isolation after the positive tests; the DSV * team is not affected.
The Nordic World Ski Championships started on February 23 in Oberstdorf, Bavaria.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event had to take place without spectators, now three participants have tested positive for the virus and had to go into isolation.
Nordic World Ski Championships: Corona Alert!
Three positive tests - contact person in isolation
As the World Ski Federation FIS announced on Saturday morning, two members of the Italian women's ski jumping team are affected, and a member of the Slovenian delegation of women ski jumpers is also infected.
All three affected persons, who were not named in the message, then had to go into quarantine.
The local health department even managed to find a contact person.
This is now also in isolation, as it was said.
In view of the pandemic, tests are being carried out closely at the World Ski Championships in the Allgäu to guarantee that the competitions can be carried out.
Participants must do a PCR test every six days, with an antigen test every other day in between.
There was only one suspected case in the first approximately 4000 tests up to the start of the World Cup, now the first three corona cases have become known at the competitions.
Nordic World Ski Championships: Three positive cases before the first weekend in Oberstdorf
There will be several decisions at the World Ski Championships on Saturday.
At lunchtime, the DSV cross-country skiers disappointed in the skiathlon, the men start at 1.30 p.m.
Later in the afternoon, the women continued the premiere of the Nordic combined at a world championship with the race; a German made a good figure in jumping.
After the decision on the combination, the men will start ski jumping at 4.30 p.m.
With so many competitions and participants going on, it's not surprising that tests turn out positive.
The World Cup continues until March 7th, which is why the organizers hope that the three positive cases will remain.
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