It had to be a soccer match between two teams with different goals but with the same motivation to win. Lugo would need to win to close a first round with the objective of remaining more or less controlled, and Almería to sign an almost perfect first part of the calendar and with promotion in their pocket. But the COVID, which is pressing again, made an appearance to disrupt everything pre-established. At noon on Sunday, Lugo announced a massive outbreak of infections in which 15 infected were reported among the first team players, seven in the coaching staff and one assistant. A mega outbreak that would finally force the LFP to postpone the match.
A fifteenth was added to the initial fourteen cases on the same Sunday afternoon. Given these figures, the Health Department of the Xunta de Galicia screened the entire staff, coaching staff, staff and assistants of the albivermello team. CAs a result, the Galician public body also decreed home confinement for the 27 members who initially tested negative, and who will have to undergo a new screening on the afternoon of Monday, December 20 at the Lucus Augusti University Hospital in Lugo.
As it is, this Lugo – Almería becomes the first match suspended by COVID of the current season. Within the seriousness of the situation, the fact that the contagion has occurred just before the Christmas break contributes to alleviating the situation of a Lugo that has seen how the virus has been primed with them.
A first contagion on Friday
The alarms went off on Friday, when the albivermella entity announced a first case. In what was expected to be an isolated case, CD Lugo published a first positive, adding that the player was already isolated. As a result of this positive, a massive screening was carried out at the Lucus Augusti University Hospital in Lugo, in which the worst omens were confirmed.