Omikron: DFL relies on booster

The German Football League (DFL) focuses on tight observation in view of the threatening omicron wave and the urgent recommendation for booster vaccination.

The Task Force Sports Medicine / Special Games Operation Analyzes up-to-date developments and new scientific findings relating to the coronavirus, of course, which is also valid in terms of mutations and thus currently with regard to the omicron variant, said the DFL on Monday on SID request.

As since the outbreak of the pandemic, the DFL in close coordination with the Task Force, if necessary, respond to current developments — especially in the case of recognizable trends, it continued: The DFL has reused all clubs again, refreshing vaccinations of players, Coaches and carers to guide them as quickly as possible.

Borussia Dortmund's Managing Director Hans-Joachim Wake wishes well-balanced measures in the face of the imminent omicron wave — and not in football.

We should not expire in symbol policy. The professional football in Germany has a proven, conclusive concept as an outdoor event with already significantly reduced viewer capacities, said Wake the side on Monday.

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Nevertheless, it is of course important that we are all careful and prepared with each other and more about the omicron variant, Wake said. However, he does not seem an immediate impact on football even in the case of contact restrictions on the part of the government.

Anyone who talks to the health offices and looks at record evaluations see that only extremely few inductances in recent months were due to Bundesliga games and their environments, he said. Even the arrival and departure behavior has changed against the background of the pandemic, people have long been increasingly focusing on an individual journey.

For Frank Johann, Managing Director of the Handball Bundesliga (HBL), a sport shutdown would be a catastrophe — he would come a professional ban right, as he said in the SID -discussion: A panic is spread, we do not want to turn ourselves Participate. It does not help us to paint the devil to the wall. Johann was for an alliance of the sport and for further talking to a voice.

Worldwide different handling of Omicron

The handling of the broad tanning omicron wave is inconsistent. The NHL tells her games in a row, the NBA attracts halfway through, though many basketball stars sit in quarantine. The National Football League (NFL) forces your teams to play if necessary with the very last bid. The schedule is sacred, equal opportunity.

Even in Europe, a lot is wrong in dealing. So London has proclaimed the disaster — but if played, the football stages are full on the island. And in the Londoner (!) Alexandra Palace, thousands celebrate thousands of drunken tightly closely without a mask at the Darts World Cup. How does it fit together? For many: not at all.

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While prophesy the simulations of science rubles, Beijing, however, is still optimistic that the Winter Olympics (4 to 20 February) can go without worries over the stage. Team D (...) Waits in China a specially furnished, completely silent bubble, said the German Olympic Sports Band (DOSE) on Monday on request: In addition, it should be effective that fans from abroad are not allowed to arrive may. Also, important will be our own contribution — we want to arrive with the best possible vaccination rate and well tested. Boosters against Omicron will be the best for the time being.