We report the events of an Italian top league soccer club that took place in one year (from March 2020 to February 2021) at the time of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. In early March 2020, just before sport competitions were called off due to the national lockdown in Italy, the team, which included 27 players and 26 staff at the time, faced a COVID-19 outbreak, with 16 confirmed and seven probable cases, including three staff members who had to be hospitalised. In May 2020, at the resumption of the training sessions, a high prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG positivity (35/53, 66%) was detected among the members of the group. In the following months, sport activities were organised behind closed doors with stringent risk mitigation procedures in place. As of February 2021, only two new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection were detected within the group, against more than 3500 nasopharyngeal swabs and 1000 serological tests.
Soccer in the time of COVID-19: One year report from an Italian top league club, March 2020 - February 2021 / Spinicci M.; Pengue L.; Bartolozzi D.; Quercioli M.; Epifani F.; Pollini S.; Zammarchi L.; Rossolini G.M.; Bartoloni A.. - In: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION. - ISSN 0950-2688. - ELETTRONICO. - 149:(2021), pp. 1-4. [10.1017/S0950268821002065]
Soccer in the time of COVID-19: One year report from an Italian top league club, March 2020 - February 2021
Spinicci M.;Pollini S.;Zammarchi L.;Rossolini G. M.;Bartoloni A.
2021
Abstract
We report the events of an Italian top league soccer club that took place in one year (from March 2020 to February 2021) at the time of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. In early March 2020, just before sport competitions were called off due to the national lockdown in Italy, the team, which included 27 players and 26 staff at the time, faced a COVID-19 outbreak, with 16 confirmed and seven probable cases, including three staff members who had to be hospitalised. In May 2020, at the resumption of the training sessions, a high prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG positivity (35/53, 66%) was detected among the members of the group. In the following months, sport activities were organised behind closed doors with stringent risk mitigation procedures in place. As of February 2021, only two new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection were detected within the group, against more than 3500 nasopharyngeal swabs and 1000 serological tests.
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