The fourth round of mass PCR tests for COVID-19 in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España on riders and team staff have all returned negative results, it was an𝄹nounced on Tuesday morning.
In a joint press release issued by the UCI and race organisers Unipublic on Tuesday mornin👍g, it was revealed that 681 tests were carried out, 528 of them on the riders and team staff, and the remaining 153 on 'level two' members of the race organisation bubble – consisting of those members of the organisation in closest contact with the riders and teams.
With the latest round of tests all negative, there have now been no positive tests since before the race start. Cofidis rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jesús Herrada was forced to miss the Vuelta after testing positive the week before the race, while members of staff from Team Sunweb and Bahrain McLaren left the race after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:testing positive in the final pre-race checks.
Mass testing was carried out prior to the race by everybody accredited on the race, including media, before arriving at the event, then im⭕mediately before the race itself and then on the first rest day, when 684 tests were carried out and produced no positive results.
Spain has been one of the worst hit countries in western Europe by the pandemic, with 1.1 million registered infections to date and much of the country in varying degrees of confinem꧒ent and curfew. A six-month state of emergency was declared over a week ago.
On Saturday, as part of their state🦋ment concerning the stage 10 protest over the time split rules, riders insisted that the organisers were not to blame and added "it has been unanimously agreed upon within the peloton that La Vuelta 2020 has been one of the safest and well-organised races during the current pandemic. We applaud the measures they have put in place to make the race as safe as pos🌃sible."
The Vuelta a España continues on Tuesday with an individual time trial to Mirador de Ézaro, and it is set to finish in Madrid on Sunday. The Women's WorldTour event, Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:will run for three stages from Toledo to Madrid, starting on Friday.
