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U of Michigan Pauses Athletics Because of Variant
Jan. 25, 2021 The University of Michigan Athletics Department announced Saturday that all sports activities are suspended for up to two weeks after several cases of the more transmissible variant were found.
The announcement includes both games and individual training sessions. All athletes, coaches, and team staff are required to quarantine immediately.
“Canceling competitions is never something we want to do, but with so many unknowns about this variant of COVID-19, we must do everything we can to minimize the spread among student-athletes, coaches, staff, and to the student-athletes at other schools,” Warde Manuel, the director of athletics, said in the statement.
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January 23rd, 2021 at 10:19 PM
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Michigan Daily’s Ethan Sears reports that the state health department is shutting down Michigan athletics for at least two weeks, in order to prevent an outbreak of the more contagious British variant of COVID-19. MDHHS issued recommendations that the university shut down all athletics and quarantine all members. It is typical when a scientific government agency issues guidance that the entity will treat that as orders.
The Daily reports there are already five cases of the variant within Michigan’s athletic department, and that the original carrier from the U.K. was a Michigan athlete.