According to the epidemiologist Markus Scholz, the omicron variant represents a new form of threat and could paralyze all team sports in particular.
“I see the hygiene concepts in team sports as having failed. Team sports can hardly be carried out safely with the Omicron variant,” said Scholz, who works at the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Leipzig, the news portal “watson”.
The scientist not only refers to the cases in the German national handball team during the current European Championship, but to all sports.
“In general, all physical team sports are currently affected by the much more contagious omicron variant,” said Scholz.
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