Dr Akshai Mansingh, a member of Cricket West Indies and the International Cricket Council’s Medical Advisory Committee, feels that there is not much to be worried about with Marquino Mindley being asymptomatic.
Mansingh’s comments on Tuesday’s Mason and Guest radio programme, comes in the wake of Mindley returning a positive COVID-19 test result while with the West Indies training squad ahead of South Africa’s tour of the Caribbean.
“As far as he [Mindley] is concerned, all is well. He has been asymptomatic and is likely to remain like that so we are not too worried about that,” said Mansingh.
He reiterated that there are channels that come into effect for these situations to avoid the spread of the virus.
“We do have bubbles. We do have protocols and the idea is that in the event that people do end up with a positive test that it is not spread across the whole squad. As you recognize, the COVID virus takes about seven days to manifest itself and you can actually catch the disease have a test done three days before, have a test done on arrival and will be negative and then presto, the last test that is done over a period of time comes back positive and the reason for that is done in such a way is to catch that eventuality and is probably the second time we done so,” Mansingh stated.
Mansingh detailed that once a person tests positive, that person is isolated.
With asymptomatic cases, he said that it was basically “serving out your time” as compared to persons who show symptoms of the virus and are therefore guided by the medical panel.
All members of the squad are subjected to another string of testing with the first since Mindley’s positive result showing everyone else being negative. Consequently, training resumed but in smaller groups.
