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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Cyclist Browne tested positive, Paul in quarantine

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Sports Desk
1803 days ago
20200319
T&T cyclist Kwesi Browne

T&T cyclist Kwesi Browne

T&T cy­clist Kwe­si Browne was test­ed pos­i­tive for coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) on Mon­day af­ter he failed to make it to the tracks for his pet event, the keirin on Thurs­day night at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cham­pi­onship at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va.

Browne com­pet­ed in the Fly­ing 200 me­tres sprint and the Elite sprint events on Wednes­day.

How­ev­er, it was re­port­ed that he start­ed feel­ing un­well on Wednes­day night, and he nev­er made it back to the track for the rest of the cham­pi­onship on Thurs­day.

When con­tact­ed Pres­i­dent Joseph Roberts told Guardian Me­dia Sports yes­ter­day that, "We have no com­ment at this time. The TTCF wants to re­spect the pri­va­cy of all of our ath­letes".

Browne, 26, who re­turned from the UCI World Cham­pi­onship in Berlin, Ger­many via Switzer­land where he at­tend­ed a train­ing camp on March 5, where he re­ceived con­fir­ma­tion of his qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the Tokyo Japan Olympic Games lat­er this year, was said to have test­ed pos­i­tive for the virus. It is be­lieved he may be the fifth per­son pos­i­tive­ly test­ed in T&T.

Mean­while, com­pa­tri­ot Nicholas Paul, who al­so par­tic­i­pat­ed at the Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships and was al­so Browne's team­mate at the UCI World Cham­pi­onships in Berlin and the UCI Cy­cling Cen­tre in Switzer­land, has gone on a self-im­posed quar­an­tine be­cause of the Browne's pos­i­tive test and told Guardian Me­dia Sports that he is await­ing a vis­it from health of­fi­cials who are set to con­duct tests on him.

Mean­while, Dou­glas Ca­ma­cho, the chair­man of the Sports Com­pa­ny of T&T (SportTT) told Guardian Me­dia Sports that the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre and the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Swim­ming Cen­tre at Bal­main in Cou­va a will be san­i­tized and closed for an in­def­i­nite pe­ri­od.

To date, T&T has record­ed sev­en (7) pos­i­tive cas­es from 137 tests for COVID-19 from sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Health Agency (CARPHA) ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health's lat­est ad­vi­so­ry.

Health of­fi­cials have said the el­der­ly and those who have un­der­ly­ing health con­di­tions are the ones most sus­cep­ti­ble to covid19, how­ev­er, PA­HO/WHO coun­try rep­re­sen­ta­tive Dr Er­i­ca Wheel­er said any­one of any age and health can con­tract the virus.


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