4 IBL 2022 Players Still Positive For COVID-19, Here's A List Of Names

Illustration of IBL 2022. (Doc. IBL official site)

JAKARTA – The organizers of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL) ensured that there was still one official and four players who were positive for COVID-19. They also still have to step aside from the regular phase to undergo self-quarantine.

"After re-testing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on Saturday, March 5, several players and officials still have to undergo self-isolation," the IBL statement said on their official website.

The positive players are Darryl James Parker and Wendha Wijaya (Dewa United Surabaya), Tri Hartanto (Evos Thunder Bogor), and Yesaya Saudale (Pelita Jaya Bakrie). Meanwhile, the positive official is Nur Arif Purnama (Tangerang Hawks).

Positive results made Wendha and Darryl unable to strengthen their team which was scheduled to meet Bali United on Sunday, March 6. Previously, Wendha was also positive based on the test results issued on March 3.

Nur Arif Purnama and Tri Hartanto also had the same fate as Wendha. They are still positive in the latest test results after previous test results also confirmed they were infected.

Meanwhile, several teams also had to lose players due to injury problems. The newcomer team, RANS PIK, has not yet been strengthened by Nuke Tri Saputra, while NSH Jakarta is still waiting for Andre Rorimpandey to recover.

The COVID-19 problem caused the second IBL series, which took place in Bandung, to be postponed. The competition then resumed in Jakarta on March 3 with a centralized bubble system.

The resumption of the competition will resume the second series which was temporarily suspended. The rest of the regular round competition will last until March 31, 2022.

All personnel involved are also housed centrally at Century Park Hotel Senayan Jakarta. The practice field is also in the same area, namely GBK Arena Senayan Jakarta.

If you refer to the initial schedule, the competition should be continued in Bandung before the third series in Solo according to the city tour system in Indonesia. However, anticipating a spike in cases made IBL change the format to be centralized.