{"id":4800,"date":"2021-07-06T11:58:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T03:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2021-07-06T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T04:12:14","slug":"covid-six-shuttlers-tested-positive-after-returning-from-spanish-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/07\/06\/covid-six-shuttlers-tested-positive-after-returning-from-spanish-international\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID: Six shuttlers tested positive after returning from Spanish International"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">KUALA LUMPUR: Six of the 20 Malaysian shuttlers who returned from the Spanish International 2021 badminton championships last month tested positive for COVID-19.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM), in a brief statement on their Facebook page today, said the six were asymptomatic and placed in a quarantine centre.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cUpon returning home, the shuttlers observed compulsory quarantine as prescribed by the authorities. They have not been to the Akademi Badminton Malaysia (ABM) since their return and have had no interaction with the national players preparing for the Tokyo Olympics.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThese six players will only check in to the ABM after the Tokyo-bound players have left for Japan. We wish the six players the very best and hope they recover soon,\u201d BAM said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Twenty national shuttlers took part in the Spanish International held at La Nucia from June 16-19. The national shuttlers bagged three titles.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">2019 SEA Games champion S. Kisona edged former World Junior champion Goh Jin Wei for the women\u2019s singles crown while Eoon Qi Xuan made the semi-finals.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There was double joy for Tee Kai Wun as the 21-year-old won the mixed doubles title with Teoh Mei Xing before partnering Man Wei Chong for the men\u2019s doubles crown.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8212; BERNAMA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Six of the 20 Malaysian shuttlers who returned from the Spanish International 2021 badminton championships last month tested positive for COVID-19. The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM), in a brief statement on their Facebook page today, said the six were asymptomatic and placed in a quarantine centre. \u201cUpon returning home, the shuttlers observed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports-tech"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4802,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/4802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}