Bundesliga: An entire squad in quarantine calls into question the return of football in Germany | Bundesliga 2019

Dynamo Dresden, bottom of the Bundesliga 2, detects two new positives and will not be able to play on May 17 against Hannover.

Dynamo Dresden decreed quarantine for all its footballers and its coaching staff after two new Covid-19 positives were detected, so it will not be able to restart its course in Bundesliga 2, where a match for the 26 matchday was scheduled for May 17 against Hannover 96 (13:30).

All Dynamo staff must be quarantined for 14 days due to these two new cases, still unidentified, although apparently asymptomatic. “In the next 14 days we will not be able to train or take part in games,” said sports director Ralf Minge.

In a first series of tests, when the team trained in small groups, one player tested positive and was isolated since May 3. In a second round, on May 4, no positive case was detected, so the team returned to collective training on Thursday.

1,724 controls

It should be remembered that the team led by Markus Kauczinski occupies the last position in the table with 24 points, the same as Karlsruher. However, just before the forced stop by the pandemic, he had added two consecutive victories that gave him some hope for permanence.

German football had designed a very demanding health and medical protocol, with systematic controls to isolate any positives and draconian protective measures in training, travel and stadiums, before, during and after games. Of the 1,724 controls performed in the first round of tests, only 10 tested positive, the German league (DFL) announced Monday.