The Barça has communicated tonight that President Joan Laporta has tested positive for coronavirus. The leader, who came to the Ciutat Esportiva this Tuesday morning to do a PCR, was in direct contact yesterday with people who have tested positive for Covid in the last hours, in the case of Ferran Torres, which he presented at the Camp Nou in the morning. The president had been given an antigen test, which had come back negative, and in the afternoon a PCR test, which finally confirmed the viral load.
The Barça has reported at the same time that for this reason “he will not travel with the team to Linares, this Wednesday, or to Granada, next Saturday, and will be confined as indicated by the health authorities.”
Laporta and Ferran Torres during the presentation of the footballer, who was the first of the two to test positive for covid.
The text adds that “the president is well and without any symptoms. The first vice president Rafael Yuste he has tested negative for the PCR test, but as a precaution he will not travel to Linares tomorrow Wednesday with the first soccer team. “Mateu Alemany, the soccer manager, also passed the tests.
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