Spain’s NT players Marc Gasol, Usman Garuba and Alberto Albalde in semi-isolation

The players of the Spanish basketball team Marc Gasol, Usman Garuba and Alberto Abalde are in semi-isolation for having had close contact with a positive covid-19, which forces them to stay in their rooms but allows them to practice and compete, as confirmed to EFE the Spanish Basketball Federation.

The contact occurred on July 21, on the flight that transferred the Spanish team from Las Vegas, where they played a friendly against the US team, to Tokyo. The positive with whom they had contact was another passenger on the plane, who was not part of the team or the Federation expedition.

Since then, the Spanish players have undergone several negative PCR tests, but after they were notified of the contact, on the 27th, they had to put themselves in that semi-isolation regime planned for close contacts.

This situation means that Marc Gasol, Usman Garuba and Alberto Abalde have to stay in individual rooms at all times except for training sessions and games, and they have to travel in a different vehicle than the rest of the team.