There Salerno announced that another player has turned out positive for Covid-19. They therefore rise to eight infections in the squad of the team coached by Stefano Colantuono. At this point it is a serious risk to postpone the next championship match that the grenade plays in derby against Napoli at the ‘Maradona’ stadium. According to the new anti-Covid protocol approved by the CTS and made official yesterday by the circular of the Ministry of Health, with a number of positive athletes up to 35%, isolation is expected and close contacts are antigenic swabs for five days.

Past the 35% threshold instead everything the team group is locked. The federation has to define the “athletes group”, and the FIGC has decided to refer to its previous regulations: for the Serie A, B and C teams, the “athletes group” is made up of 25 players. The 35% threshold is therefore exceeded at not positivity. In this case, with another positive in Salernitana, the match with Napoli will be suspended.

The difference between the old and the new anti-Covid protocol

The grenades had already played the last championship match against Lazio with a team heavily decimated by the infections that had forced Colantuono to field in defense Motoc, young central of the Primavera grenade team. The coach of Campania had said he was deeply regretted by the decision to play the game given that by regulation the new anti Covid protocol for the suspension of the match it would only come into force on Monday 17 January and not Saturday, that is the day on which the Arechi challenge was played.

With eight positive players, at the moment, the ‘Maradona’ challenge will be played regularly but it is clear that with only one other positive ascertained, the grenades will not be able to take part in the game by complying with the recently approved new anti-Covid protocol. In fact, the old protocol, which established that you could take the field if it were available “13 players, including at least one goalkeeper, from the first team or Primavera players born by 31 December 2003” it is no longer valid with the entry into force of the new one.