NHL updates COVID-19 protocols to come into effect after the All-Star break

The National Hockey League and National Hockey League Players' Association announced new updates to their COVID-19 protocol that will be set to begin following each team's last game before the All-Star break.

The revised protocol includes changes that were made prior to the start of the season, while also incorporating new changes with enhanced measures and testing requirements.

There are five points now being added to the protocol, including the following:

1. Recommendation to receive booster vaccines as they become available.

2. Removal of "enhanced measures" and reverting instead to the start-of-season protocol, except where otherwise specified.

3. Updated recommendation for type of masks and steps to reduce community exposure.

4. Removal of the requirement to test daily for fully vaccinated individuals.

5. Removal of the requirements to test close contacts.

Also, according to Micahel Russo of The Athletic "As part of these protocols, all 32 teams have been informed taxi squads will dissolve as of the All-Star break. That was the original plan when the taxi squads were reintroduced Dec. 26."

These protocols will be followed by all NHL players, and regulations set by local, state/provincial, and federal health governments must still be followed.

The NHLPA and @NHL have announced updates to their COVID-19 Protocol, coming into effect immediately following the club's last game before All-Star break: https://t.co/Pqso5Aeju6— NHLPA (@NHLPA) February 1, 2022

As part of these protocols, all 32 teams have been informed taxi squads will dissolve as of the All-Star break. That was the original plan when the taxi squads were reintroduced Dec. 26. So no more Boldy/Dewar taxi squad reassignments from #mnwild after this temporary one https://t.co/nGkcDLe8np— Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) February 1, 2022

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