Two positive cases for Covid-19 in the ranks of the Lumberjacks of Las Tunas were confirmed today by authorities of the Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) in the province, a new setback that will probably postpone until the end of the month the resumption of the playoff against the Wasps of Santiago de Cuba.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- The PCR test whose result had been pending on Wednesday had finally a positive diagnosis. The roommates of that athlete, even though all were negative for SARS-CoV-2, have been transferred to the isolation center located on the Lenin Campus of the Las Tunas University.

Alexis Pérez Leyva, provincial director of Sports, also reported that after the complementary test carried out this week, the same diagnosis was maintained for the second player announced with the COVID-19 last Friday. The first of those two positive cases, however, already received the clinical discharge on Tuesday.

The Las Tunas team will return to training next Wednesday with all the athletes who have already received the epidemiological discharge, while the two players still infected and those who are kept in preventive isolation will be incorporated as soon as the sanitary protocol followed in these cases allows it.

The Lumberjacks are trailing 0-1 in the quarter-final match against the Wasps of Santiago de Cuba, a team that has had to deal with a major outbreak of infections, in which more than 20 of its members were involved.

Although at this time the team from Santiago only report one athlete and two other members as positive, the necessary recovery and training days that both teams must have put the resumption date of the play off in the last week of February.