Diego Costa and Arias test positive

Atlético has announced this Thursday that two of his footballers have given positive for coronavirus, Diego Costa and Arias. The team returned to work today, precisely to take the tests prior to training. However, The two of them haven't shown up Well, they did the test on their own and they have tested positive. According to the club, both are asymptomatic and are already in quarantine and complying with health and LaLiga protocols.

The rest of the players (except international) and technical They went to Cerro del Espino de Majadahonda to pass the tests, the results of which should be known this Friday, date set to start training. That is, it cannot be ruled out yet that there are more cases in the first template.

At the beginning of August, Atlético also had the positives of Correa and Vrsaljko, who could not travel with the rest of the team to Lisbon for the Champions League. So the group was training, but fortunately there were no more infections. And before that, in May, when the team returned to work at Cerro after confinement, it was Lodi who could not join because he had tested positive. Then it was also known that nine of his colleagues had already outgrown it and had antibodies.

The footballers have enjoyed three weeks of vacation and, before returning to work, precautions are taken so that no positive is joined by their teammates. There are three weeks left until the League begins – in the case of Atleti – and we must work to avoid any contagion in the dressing room.