Three days after announcing nine positives for coronavirus in Alcorcón -two players and seven from the coaching staff- that forced the suspension of the LaLiga SmartBank match against Sabadell, both the club and LaLiga reported that, repeated on several occasions the PCR and antigen tests, the results came out negative, the first diagnosis offered being a medical error.
For Santiago Valor, Synlab Medical Director, these results confirm an error in the first laboratory tests “potentially due to an interaction between positive and negative cases in the same room.”
“For this reason, and aligned with LaLiga and the clubs, We will reinforce security measures in this phase, insisting on the importance of a minimum distance between people and separating the taking of samples between cases already declared positive and negative, as well as reviewing and improving the rest of the measures already established “, Valor assured.
Given that the request to suspend the meeting was based on some erroneous medical results, LaLiga considers that this suspension does not affect the quota established by the rules competition of the season.
In summary, all of the nine people reported as positive for COVID-19 in the PCR on Tuesday, October 20, have tested negative in two PCR tests and two antigen tests performed 6, 24, 36 and 48 hours later.
“Given these results, it has been confirmed that the nine positives reported on the 20th were wrong “, the club reported.
In addition, Alcorcón also reported that one of the three people who tested positive in the PCR carried out the day before the suspension of the previous match against Ponferradina had undergone five tests (2 PCRs and 3 for antigens) from that date and in all of them the result was negative.
Finally, the Alcorcón revealed that it has also been PCR and antigen testing of a group of seven affiliate players that “they could be incorporated if necessary to the dynamics of the first team and the result of these tests has been negative for all the players.”