Munir tests positive for covid-19

Forward Munir El Haddadi has tested positive for covid-19 in the tests that Sevilla decided to carry out on its squad and coaching staff in a preventive way before the team's return to training, scheduled for the start of the next week.

Sevilla reported this Saturday that, as a preventive measure, it decided to carry out a PCR test on its squad and coaching staff this week, with the idea of ​​anticipating any vicissitudes facing the return to training, scheduled for next Monday.

“In these tests, a member of the staff of the first team tested positive for Covid-19. The affected person, Munir El Haddadi, is asymptomatic, in good health and is isolated at his home in Madrid, the city where the test was carried out. PCR test last Thursday, “said the Seville club in a statement.

Sevilla adds that “it immediately communicated this circumstance to all the competent sports and health authorities and isolated the footballer” and specified that “tomorrow, Sunday, as planned, the squad and coaching staff will be subjected to new PCR tests in order to the imminent return to work. ”