Juan Ayuso to continue at Vuelta a España despite positive COVID-19 test
Spaniard's low viral load means he avoids being 24th rider to abandon followin𒊎g a posit⛎ive result
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Juan Ayuso became the latest rider in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España peloton to fall victim to a positive COVID-19 test on Friday morning, but 🌃the Spaniard is set to continue in the race.
Rather than b♕ecome the 24th rider to abandon the Vuelta following a positive test, Ayuso, who lies fifth overall, will continue in the race due to a low viral load.
"As per our internal protocols, Juan Ayuso was tested for Covid-19 and returned a positive result this morning," said 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates doctor Adrian Rotunno.
"He is asymptomatic and analysing his PC🅷R found he had a very low risk of infectivity, simi🌌lar to cases such as we saw at this year's Tour de France. We have made the decision in consultation with medical representatives from the race organisation and the UCI.
"We are aware🅰 of Juan's clinical picture and are closely monitoring his🍸 situation."
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI protocols introduced ahead of the Tour de France this year state that riders can test positive and continue in the race – 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:as was the case wit🔥h Bob Jun🌌gels in July. Following a positive rapid antigen test, a PCR test is carried out to confirm the resultജ.
However,ꩵ the nature of a PCR test means that the result can show the resulting vir🍎al load a rider is carrying – in basic terms, the longer it takes for the test to 'find' the virus demonstrates the viral load, and thus higher or lower contagiousness.
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Analysis of a positive PCR test by a panel of doctors – the UCI medical director, the COVID-19 doctor of the race, and the team's doctor – 👍;then determines whether the rider can continue in the race or not, with exemptions given if it is established that "the rider or staff member is not contagious and not likely to infect third persons."
19-year-old Ayuso is making his debut in the Vuelta a España and has emerged as UAE Team Emirates leader and a contender for the overall podium after 12 days of racing. The Spaniard lies 4:53 off race leader 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) ahead of Frid🔴ay's stage 13 to Montilla.
Ayuso had felt 🐭ill before the𝔉 stage 10 time trial in Alicante, waking up with a headache, though he took several COVID-19 tests and all came back negative.
"I woke up feeling rough, with a very 🉐bad headache, did three COVID-1﷽9 tests, but it proved to be nothing," he said after the stage,
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