Hard penalties planned: NFL tightens the Corona rules

According to media reports, it should be planned that a larger Corona outbreak under non-vaccinated players is considered in the worst case with a defeat for the affected team, the discharge of a game should be endangered.

Hard punishment in game failure

In writing the NFL to the clubs, a game is considered lost if not enough professionals are operational and the game can not be moved. Should the game fail, no player gets his salary for this matchday - that's what the team that causes the failure as well as the "innocent" opponent. For incurred costs, the causet team will come up. In addition, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell (62) can pronounce further penalties.

**** With vaccinated players, the NFL wants to proceed differently. "If an association can not play due to a corona outbreak for vaccinated persons, we will try to minimize the competitive and economic burden of both participating teams," it says in writing the NFL to the clubs.

Pushing rate should be increased

The league apparently wants to promote a higher vaccine within the teams to prevent corona infections and associated game layouts. In the US, the Corona numbers rise clearly again, the vaccine rate is back.

According to information, more than 78 percent of the players in the NFL have received at least one vaccination, with 14 clubs at least 85 percent of the players were vaccinated. All 32 teams should have a vaccine rate of at least 50 percent in the players, it says. Currently, an NFL team benefits with a vaccination rate of more than 85 percent of relaxation approximately in the training day.

Sparkled players can now get rid of two negative tests within 24 hours of quarantine when they are corona-positive and asymptomatic. Unbelieved players should remain in isolation for ten days and have no contact with the team.

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