The women's OL cluster continues to grow.
The Lyon club indicates, this Thursday, that four new positive cases were diagnosed within the group, "bringing to ten the number of players and staff members detected positive for Covid-19".
The identity of the infected persons has not been specified.
All the players, even the negative ones, will be in solitary confinement for several days.
The staff too.
One of the staff members would, moreover, be concerned by these new cases detected.
Tests are carried out every day.
"The club recalls that since the revelation of the first cases, all of its workforce has been placed in isolation, thus respecting the protocol put in place by the Regional Health Agency," OL said in a press release.
Olympique Lyonnais will continue to take all possible measures to ensure proper medical monitoring of all of its professional workforce.
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OL informs that they have carried out new PCR tests within their professional female workforce in the past 48 hours.
The latest tests have revealed four new positive cases, bringing the number of players and staff found positive for COVID-19 to ten.
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Jean-Michel Aulas, the Lyon president, was surprised this Thursday at the convening of three Lyonnaises, contact case, for a gathering of the French women's team.
“All this is not very careful because the Lyon players are contact cases, new cases were declared on Wednesday.
Not reasonable, ”he thundered on Twitter.
Indeed, Corinne Deacon, the coach, did not retain Lyonnaise positive for Covid-19 (Renard, Majri, Cascarino) but she, on the other hand, summoned those who are in contact (Le Sommer, Karchaoui, Henry) to the matches against England on April 9 and the United States on April 13.
As a reminder, the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League, between OL and women's PSG (1-0 on the first leg for Lyon), scheduled for Wednesday March 31 at Groupama Stadium, has been postponed to April 18 in This is precisely the reason for the cases of Covid-19 within the Rhone workforce.
The championship match between the two clubs, also scheduled for Décines in March, had also been postponed due, this time, to cases of Covid-19 within the number of Franciliennes.
It has not yet been reprogrammed.