Five other Fuenlabrada players have tested positive for coronavirus after the last two tests they have undergone, as AS has learned. The first tests They have already confirmed that six representatives of the Madrid team's expedition were infected when they arrived in Galicia. Also, a footballer and three employees of the entity did not travel when it was confirmed that they suffered from the disease.
The players were subjected in the last hours to two new tests, one commissioned by LaLiga and the other by the Xunta de Galicia. The new five positives were detected in one of them. The members of the expedition who have given negative results in all the analyzes had the hope that the Galician authorities allowed them to return to Madrid, but now that possibility is very much in the air and it is not ruled out that the entire group has to go through quarantine in A Coruña.
At this time, Twelve players would be infected, with which the possibility that Deportivo-Fuenlabrada will be disputed begins to fade, as LaLiga intends.
Fuenlabrada statement
Minutes after AS uncovered the news of another five positives in Fuenlabrada, the Madrid club published the following statement confirming all extremes of it:
“In the afternoon of today, four more cases of COVID-19 and a fifth inconclusive, with symptoms, have been reported, and at the time of this release it is in the process of clarification. In the absence of confirmation with the results that today the Xunta de Galicia carried out, the number of infected in the expedition would increase to ten plus the four people who stayed in Madrid “.