COVID At the World Cup
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Greeeeeeat. According to Chess24's Facebook page (HT: Allen Becker), Levon Aronian forfeited the first game of his World Cup match with Bobby Cheng due to a possible COVID infection, though he still may able to return for game 2. And Fabiano Caruana won the first game of his match with Indonesian GM Susanto Megaranto when the latter was forced to resign after move 15 because he - Megaranto - had a positive COVID test. (And now we have to see if Caruana will wind up testing positive.)
Unless the players have been wearing masks and engaging in social distancing - and even then there are no guarantees - this could turn out to be a disaster. What is FIDE going to do if everyone ends up testing positive in a week or so?