Seven members of the Indian girls’s hockey group, together with captain Rani Rampal, and two assist employees members on Monday examined constructive for COVID-19 forward of a coaching camp on the Sports Authority of India’s (SAI) Centre in Bengaluru.
All the gamers and assist employees are asymptomatic and have been positioned beneath commentary on the SAI centre.
“They were tested on April 24, post quarantine after their return from their respective home towns to their training base at SAI Bengaluru, as per the laid down protocol,” the SAI mentioned in a press release.
Besides Rampal, the others who’ve been contaminated are Savita Punia, Sharmila Devi, Rajani, Navjot Kaur, Navneet Kaur and Sushila.
The two assist employees members who’ve examined constructive are video analyst Amrutaprakash and scientific advisor Wayne Lombard.
The Indian girls’s hockey core group had returned to the nationwide camp in Bengaluru on Sunday final to restart the preparations for the Tokyo Olympics after a 10-day break.
The 25-member Olympic core group underwent obligatory quarantine earlier than the graduation of coaching.In January, the group toured Argentina the place it performed seven matches.
The aspect drew two matches in opposition to the host nation’s junior group, misplaced the subsequent two in opposition to Argentina B aspect after which suffered defeats within the two video games in opposition to world quantity two senior group.
In the tour of Germany in February-March, the Indian girls’s group misplaced all its 4 matches in opposition to the world quantity three house aspect.