It turns out that the SARS-COV-2 pandemic that interrupted the last season of Serie A, the main Italian football league, is far from over.
On Thursday, SSC Napoli president and owner Aurelio De Laurentiis took the COVID-19 test showed the club on Thursday.
“SSC Napoli announces that President Aurelio De Laurentiis tested positive for Covid-19 after sampling yesterday,” reads a summary on the official Naples website.
The news surprised the Italian football environment not only because De Laurentiis is the first Serie A president to test positive for COVID-19, but also because he came here after attending a Serie A assembly on Wednesday that included representatives of all 20 Serie A clubs. .
The assembly held in Milan and the first user-scheduled assembly after months of virtual gatherings due to the closure.
As a result, the news raised fears of a “domino effect,” forcing everyone who provides testing and potentially isolating themselves, jeopardizing the start of the new Serie A season expected in just one week.
In addition, De Laurentiis’ behavior was highlighted when the Italian newspaper La Repubblica stated that the president of Naples already showed symptoms of the virus before the meeting, but that he did not yet go anyway and without caution beforehand.
De Laurentiis allegedly endangered him unnecessarily, attributing his symptoms to “an allergic reaction to bad oysters,” the newspaper reports.
According to Corriere della Sera De Laurentiis and his wife, Jacqueline felt after visiting his holiday home on the island of Capri.
They were tested for COVID-19 and were still waiting for effect when the 71-year-old president attended the Serie A assembly on Wednesday, according to the newspaper.
In addition, several photographs on social media showed De Laurentiis talking to hounds after the assembly without dressing in a mask or maintaining social distance.
The Lega Serie A announced Thursday night that President Paolo Dal Pino had to isolate himself after speaking to De Laurentiis.
“When he arrived he had no fever, and the same thing happens after controlling his temperature at Milan airport. Then at 8 p. m. he called saying he had a fever and had tested positive. When he told me that I am very sorry for him and that we activated all the procedures according to protocol,” Dal Pino told Radio Capital.
Benevento President Oreste Vigorito has also expressed concern, as the club’s newly promoted Serie A president returned to Campania on a plane with De Laurentiis.
After receiving news from De Laurentiis, Vipassrito made the decision to move on to voluntary isolation and announced that he would review COVID-19 on Friday morning, according to Benevento’s website.
According to Sky Sports Italy, De Laurentiis recently suffered from pneumonia and is a component of the organisation of age at risk.
The media reports that the president’s entourage is admitted to a hospital in Rome as a precautionary measure.
However, several media outlets have regulated that the news has an effect on the squad, as the players have not had contact with De Laurentiis since Friday, September 4.
Napoli must begin the new Serie A season at Parma on 20 September.
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