NICE, France (VN) – A to speed up COVID-19 controls? Get a cell lab.
This is what the Tour de France takes from one level to another on the three-week circuit around France in what will be a key tool of the cycling toolbox to check to get to Paris.
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The most important cycling race begins on Saturday with the coronavirus cloud over his collective as an executioner.
With groups facing an eviction imaginable by two positive cases, and Nice already under the prestige of “red zone” as a COVID-19 hotspot, many are concerned about whether the Tour will arrive in Paris when it ends on September 20.
“It’s a miracle we’re starting this Tour de France,” UCI President David Lappartient said Friday. “It will be a miracle if we can get [to] Paris, and that’s the goal.”
So what if someone tests positive for COVID-19 in the race?
All have already been tested for coronavirus and would not be in Nice if they did not test negative.
On Friday, the UCI issued an update to COVID verification regulations for the Tour and other primary rounds. Teams can be ejected if two runners, not runners and staff as proposed, tested positive on COVID-19 within a one-week period.
However, individual runners will be eliminated from the race and quarantined if they test positive or have severe symptoms.
A series of false positives imaginable provoked a team reaction. To allay concerns, the Tour will be packaged in a cell lab around the race to provide faster controls. ASO Racing homeowners have paid for the cell lab, and the lab will help verify if a case is legitimate.
It is unclear how long it will take to finish a lab result, but technicians and all laboratory appliances will be in place at the route level.
This means that the patterns do not want to be transported to remote laboratories. Officials said the goal is to be able to rewind a pattern in time to know whether or not a cyclist is positive before the start of each day’s stage.
“The plan is for the lab to reverse the effects before the next day’s level begins,” Lappartient told a handful of journalists on Friday, adding VeloNews. “If this is not possible, the user will be removed from the race anyway.”
According to the protocol, if a cyclist tests positive or has symptoms of infection, the cell lab will give the Tour a faster response time by returning what would necessarily be a “sample B”. If any of the samples report a positive result in COVID-19, the broker or staff member can be sure that they have been infected.
As Lappartient said, if the pattern of moments cannot be completed through the lab before the start of a stage, the driver will not run and will be eliminated from the Tour.
“We have to be very strict on the subjects,” Lappartient said. “There can be no compromise on the rules.”
Lappartient also demonstrated that the french local and national fitness government will work hard with race and the ICU, and that government officials will have the final say on whether the Tour will continue if pandemic situations are dramatically worse.