Corona: Extremely high vaccination rate in Italian football

98 percent of Italian professional footballers are vaccinated against the coronavirus.

This was announced by the President of the Italian Football Union AIC Umberto Chicago on Thursday. This is positive news for all Italy. The footballers send an important message for the reboot of the country, said the 51-year-old.

Nevertheless, in the Italian Serie A, play allocations had always come to game layouts, as local health authorities had quarantined some teams after several Coronals. The league had initially refused to lay games. This had only changed after the order of health offices.

From the next match day, the new regulation will come into force, after which games will be canceled when a club has eleven positively tested professionals in the squad. Young players are not considered.

With the new rule, the previous provision is reversed. So far, the rule was that the lots take place with 13 healthy players. In addition, from 16 January, only 5000 spectators are admitted to the encounters, guest fans are no longer allowed. The regulation first applies to two gaming days.

I hope it does not come to play without viewers. The Italian football has proven maturity in dealing with the pandemic, said the boss of the Italian Football Association Gabriele Graving in the face of in Italy continued to increase infection numbers. In addition, Graving hope that the government will support the clubs financially damaged by the Pandemic.