Recently, due to the emergence of the new coronavirus variant, Omi kerong, the confirmed cases have increased rapidly. As of December 15 in Beijing, nearly 50 players in the NBA have triggered health and safety agreements this season, and more than 40 have missed games as a result.
The current situation of epidemic prevention and control in the NBA is not optimistic. Today, after Harden and Brown triggered the health and safety agreement, the Nets also have as many as 7 players recruited, and only 8 can play at present. The previous Bulls also had 10 people triggering a safety and health agreement and were forced to postpone the related game.
In the eyes of team executives and medical officials, after Christmas and New Year, there may be a small outbreak of the epidemic within the NBA league, and an NBA insider said in an interview: "Most of us think that It is a matter of time before Michaelon invades the NBA league, not whether it will happen." ”
Before the start of the season, the NBA league officially made relatively strict rules for the vaccination of players. According to statistics, 97% of players within the league have been vaccinated, and the league is currently trying to increase the proportion of this number. Media reports have now seen about 200 players in the NBA have completed the injection of the booster needle, and this number will continue to increase for some time to come. The league requires all eligible players to receive a booster injection by December 17, otherwise they will face stricter epidemic prevention rules, including having to be tested for COVID-19 on match days. After 17 days, staff members who are not injected with boosters are restricted from contacting players and are equally restricted from traveling with the team or on the sidelines.
Before the start of the season, the NBA and the players' union agreed to ease restrictions on vaccinated players, and it is unclear whether they will re-tighten the epidemic prevention rules and conduct daily testing of all players. The league needs to negotiate with the players' union, but the agreement is not easy to reach in a short period of time.
After multiple teams have appeared on a large scale of personnel to trigger health and safety agreements, whether the league can continue according to the original schedule will wait for the official NBA news.
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