NEW YORK (ABC NEWS) – All fully vaccinated players and staff can stop wearing masks in dugouts, bullpens and clubhouses under the latest change to Major League Baseball’s COVID-19 protocols, reported ABC News.
Fully vaccinated players and staff are allowed to eat in restaurants without restrictions and attend sporting events as spectators at venues with government-approved safety protocols, the commissioner’s office and players’ association said in a memo.
The league is eliminating electronic tracing devices and monitor testing, and compliance officers will no longer have to accompany teams on trips, reported ABC.
For team buses involving fully vaccinated players and staff, social distancing and mask requirements have been eliminated. Players and staff will be allowed to arrive at clubhouses more than five hours before game time.
Unvaccinated and partially vaccinated players and staff still must wear masks but it will not be considered a violation to remove or pull down the mask to briefly eat or drink, before entering or leaving a shower or at the direction of the medical or training staff, reported ABC.
Clubhouse social distancing was eliminated for all teams reaching 85 percent vaccination among tier 1 individuals such as players, managers, coaches and training staff.
According to ABC, as of last Friday, 22 of the 30 teams had reached 85 percent among tier 1 individuals.
Restrictions on team individuals dining together also were eliminated, with the exception that non-vaccinated individuals would still be required to wear masks when they’re not eating or drinking.
Fully vaccinated players and staff also can resume commercial travel without PCR intake testing when they rejoin the team, unless they show COVID-19 symptoms or are known to have been exposed.
Unvaccinated or partially vaccinated family may stay with fully vaccinated players and staff on the road, and players and staff can use hotel pools and fitness centers, with provisions that masks are required in fitness centers if they are open to the public and that physical distancing is required in pools, reported ABC.
The five-day quarantine was eliminated for free agents and players selected to a team’s 40-man roster who were not in the COVID testing program previously.
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