This is what the director of the board, Anette Lykke Petri, says.
Three spectators have been diagnosed with the particularly contagious variant as of Thursday noon. The football match was played on June 17, and the individuals developed symptoms of coronavirus after three to four days.
According to the agency, the three people have been infected independently of each other. The infected thus do not know each other, and during the match they have sat in three different sections of the stadium.
Anette Lykke Petri says that they have most likely been infected by one or more people, and that it happened during the match.
– The most realistic is probably that they have been infected. Not while sitting and watching the match, but maybe while standing close in a queue for the toilet or drinks or on their way in and out of the Park, she says.
However, if the three people became infected during the match, they have not been able to pass on the infection on the same day. Because it typically takes between two and ten days before you can infect others, and you get the most infection when you get symptoms, says the director.
However, as the source of the infection is still unknown, there are potentially more who may have been infected by the same in the Park.
– The Delta variant – also formerly called the Indian variant – is about 50 percent more contagious than the Alpha variant, also formerly called the British variant.
– It is clear that if so many people have been very, very close together, and you have a more contagious variant among you, there is at least a potential for more to be infected, says Anette Lykke Petri.
According to the director, the so-called close contacts of the three infected and the close contacts of the contacts have been sent in isolation and it is recommended to be PCR-tested.
In addition, the football spectators who watched the match from the C-grandstand sections 1-7 have also been called for testing. But they should not be in isolation, says the director.
Question: Do you have any idea how much the infection could potentially have spread, now that it is one or more sources of infection?
– No, that is what we are in the process of scanning at the moment, and that is why we have encouraged the other spectators who have sat in the relevant sections to be PCR tested, says Anette Lykke Petri .
– Only time will tell, and then we just hope that as many as possible will be tested, she adds.
Source: The Nordic Page