A FC Barcelona player, who "has not been in contact" with "the team that must travel to Lisbon on Thursday" for the final Champions League tournament, has tested positive for the new coronavirus.
“After the PCR tests carried out yesterday Tuesday afternoon to the group of nine players who started their preseason today (Wednesday), one of them tested positive for Covid-19. He is asymptomatic, he is in good health and has been placed in isolation at his home, "Barça announced in a statement released Wednesday morning, without specifying the identity of the infected person.
"The player has not been in contact with the members of the first team who have planned to travel to Lisbon tomorrow Thursday," said the club blaugrana, who are due to face Bayern Munich on Friday at 9 p.m. in the quarter-finals of Champions League, during the unprecedented "Final 8" which is to take place in Lisbon from August 12 to 23.
Cases in Spain as in France
FC Barcelona has directly informed the relevant sports and health authorities, and has traced all the people who have recently been in contact with the player to take PCR tests, the club said.
The nine young players who have started their preseason are Rafinha, Carles Aleña, Pedri, Francisco Trincao, Oriol Rosell, Juan Miranda, Matheus Fernandes, Moussa Wague and French prospect Jean-Clair Todibo (20).
Several cases of contamination have been detected in other stables, in particular in Saint-Etienne, Nantes and Montpellier.