By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Janis Timma, Evgeny Voronov, and Jordan Mickey were tested positive for COVID-19, as their club, Khimki Moscow Region has announced. On the contrary, there’s no positive test on Panathinaikos, the last EuroLeague team which played against Khimki and got tested after returning to Greece from Russia.
The news brings the number of confirmed European basketball-related coronavirus cases to 10, just this weekend. Real Madrid and Barcelona’s game for the Spanish Liga Endesa have been postponed.
Barcelona has already announced that head coach Sarunas Jasikevicius and assistant Darius Maskoliunas both tested positive for COVID-19.
And also CSKA Moscow has also informed that Nikola Milutinov, Semen Antonov, and Janis Strelnieks are positive for coronavirus. All those cases are currently isolated and more tests are expected for them and also for the rest of the rosters.
According to EuroLeague’s health protocols, all matches are taking place as planned unless a team has less than eight players available to participate due to coronavirus-related reasons. Then this team will lose the game 0-20.
Ιf a team has less than eight players available to participate due to coronavirus-related reasons and injuries, then the game is postponed.