Covid-19: Madeira players returns to training on Monday conditioned

The island club informs that "the decision of the administration of the SAD aims to safeguard the physical integrity of its professionals", offering them a "controlled environment" to carry out their training, preventing them from being exposed "to high risk of contagion motivated by training / running on public roads ".

Nacional recalls that "Decree Law 2-B 2020, which regulates the extension of the state of emergency, which provides for the possibility of athletes use the club's facilities for their physical activity ".

In this first phase, body temperature control will be carried out when the athletes leave home and information about the health status of the people with whom they share the room will be maintained, and on arrival at the stadium they will be evaluated in a room prepared for this purpose.

The training of Nacional, the first Portuguese club to return to work, will be individualized, with a player in each midfield, avoiding contacts between athletes and staff. Nacional occupies the first place of the II Liga, with 50 points, two more than Farense , runner-up, at a time when the test is suspended due to the pandemic after 24 rounds.

The new coronavirus, responsible for the pandemic of covid - 19 , has already caused more than 107 thousand dead and infected more than 1.7 million people in 193 countries and territories.

Of the infection cases, almost 345 thousand are considered cured. After appearing in China in December, the outbreak spread throughout the world, which led the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic situation, and the European continent is currently the most affected, with about 900 thousand infected and 74 thousand dead.

In Portugal, which has been in a state of emergency since 19 in March and up to the end of the day 17 in April, registered 470 deaths and 15. 987 cases of confirmed infections, according to the balance sheet made today by the Directorate-General for Health.