Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

November 5, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission during Team-Sport Do Players Develop COVID-19 after Participating in Rugby League Matches with SARS-CoV-2 Positive Players

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  • [Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Player interaction and proximity analysis of 4 professional rugby matches in which 8 players were retrospectively found to have SARS-CoV-2 suggest that risk of in-game transmission may be minimal. While video footage analysis and GPS data show the positive players were within 2 meters of other players for up to 316 seconds during 60 interactions, only 1 of 28 identified contacts and 5 of 100 players on opposing teams had positive tests, all of which were eventually linked to either internal club outbreaks or wider-community transmission.

Jones et al. (Nov 4, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 Transmission during Team-Sport Do Players Develop COVID-19 after Participating in Rugby League Matches with SARS-CoV-2 Positive Players. Pre-print downloaded Nov. 5 from  https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.03.20225284