Tigers Y Striped of Monterrey must limit the capacity of their stadiums to 50 percent in response to the outbreak of coronavirus that stalks the world in general and Mexico in particular with almost 26 thousand confirmed cases this Thursday.
The new restriction was announced at a press conference by the Nuevo León State Health Secretariat.
“It is a team decision, consulted with the Health Committee, what is presented today is validated by a council of experts and the good news is that there will be no closures, that we are going to reactivate. We are going to go back to school and we are going to do it very prudently and as the Covid evolves, ”explained Governor Samuel García Sepúlveda.
With this measure taken, Striped It will only be able to accommodate 25 thousand people in the BBVA Stadium when it receives this Saturday Queretaro in his debut in the 2022 Grita México Clausura Tournament.
For his part, next Saturday, January 15 Tigers will be local before Puebla in a match corresponding to the second day and the University stadium will only be enabled for 21 thousand fans.
So far, both Tigers What Striped they could fill 70 percent of the capacity of their respective stadiums.
Although with an enormously lower lethality thanks to the vaccination scheme, the Covid has wreaked havoc in recent days and this January 6, 25,821 infections were registered, the highest number in the last four months.
Soccer is not exempt from this reality that the country is experiencing and several clubs have already reported infections in their squads. Justly Tigers should have postponed his debut in the Clausura before Santos Laguna after registering twelve positive cases of Covid in their ranks.
