UAE Team Emirates squad to remain in Abu Dhabi as precaution against coronavirus contagion
Confusion at UAE Tour as some teams leave and ot🥃hers stay in quarantine

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates have announced that their riders and staff at the UAE Tour will remain in the country as a precaution, despite being given the all-clear to leave following the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:coronavirus scare that saw the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:final two sta༒ges of the race cancelled.
More than 600 people on the UAE Tour – riders, staff, race organisation and media – had been q💜uarantined in their hotels in Abu Dhabi since Thursday evening after the Abu Dhabi Sports Council announced that there were two suspected cases of the coronavirus Covid-19 among Italian staff members from a particip𓆉ating team. It emerged on Saturday that both members had since tested negative for Covid-19.
PA reported on Sunday that the first 450 tests have come back negative, and many teams have already left Abu Dhabi, including Team Ineos, J๊umbo-Visma, Bora-Hansgrohe, Movistar and Israel Start-Up Nation.
While some teams left for the airport, it was reported on Saturday evening that three teams – Cofidis, Groupama-FDJ and Gazprom – were being kept in quarantine in their Abu Dhabi hotel pending further tests. Cofidis rider José Herrada expressed his frustration💮 on Twitter on Sunday morning: "Some riders are still held in our rooms in Abu Dhabi with little information and a negative result for coronavirus. Others have been able to leave."
UAE Team Emirates stated on Sunday that all of their riders a🐽nd staff had tested negative for Covid-19, but the꧟y were remaining in the United Arab Emirates for the time being in order to alleviate the risk of contagion.
"Despite being given the green light to travel home and the last tests carried out coming back negative, our team has decided to extend their stay in the UAE to continue test💯ing everyone’s conditions and go home only with the safety of non-contagion," read the UAE Team Emirates statement.
"In light of some known cases of flu within our group and other 🍬teams, we will be tested again in the next few days and once the situation has improved, riders and staff will ret🍸urn to their families."
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UAE Team Emirates confirmed that their decisio🦹n to remain in Abu Dhabi was a voluntary precaution and not one imposed upon them by local authorities: "Until yesterday, we have followed the instructions of the relevant authorities and organiꦡzers, while today we have decided autonomously to pursue our own measures."
The UAE Team Emirates riders who will remain in Abu Dhabi in the coming days include Fernando Gaviria, who is targeting su❀ccess at Milan-San Remo this spring. Tadej Pogacar finished second overall at the shortened UAE Tour.
"Our te🍎am cares more about the health of our athletes and staff than race res𓆏ults, and we are well aware that extending our stay in isolation will hamper our sporting ambitions in view of the upcoming events," read the UAE Team Emirates statement.
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