Spanish football club, Valencia, said on Monday that 35 percent of players and staff members have tested positive for the disease.<\/p>\n
The club said the virus spread among the players and staff following last month’s trip to Milan in Italy, “an area confirmed as ‘high risk’ by the Italian authorities days afterwards”, for the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against Atalanta.<\/p>\n
“Despite the strict measures adopted by the club” after the match, “these latest results show that the exposure inherent to such matches has caused a positive test rate of around 35%,” Valencia said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“All cases are asymptomatic and those involved are currently isolated at home, receiving medical assessment and carrying out their scheduled training plan.”<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Valencia had announced that five of the club’s players and staff had tested positive for COVID-19, including Argentine defender Ezequiel Garay.<\/p>\n
Spain is the second-worst affected country after Italy by the deadly virus in Europe, with more than 9,100 confirmed cases and 309 deaths.<\/p>\n
Worldwide, over 7,000 people have died, more than one lakh has been infected in 143 countries. The WHO last week declared Europe as the epicentre of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
On Monday, nearly 14,000 people were infected with the novel coronavirus globally \u2014 the highest in a single day \u2014 bringing the total number of confirmed cases above 167,500, WHO confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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