The coach of Granada, isolated after an “inconclusive” result in coronavirus

Granada coach Diego Martínez does not travel with his team to Cyprus this Wednesday, where on Thursday he will play against Omonia Nicosia a match in the Europa League group stage, having given a Inconclusive result in a covid-19 test that was performed this morning.

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The club reported this Wednesday in a statement that both Diego Martínez and another member of his coaching staff they tested negative in PCR tests for coronavirus carried out on Tuesday but that the antigen tests they underwent this morning offered an inconclusive result.

This has caused both Diego Martínez, who is well, as his assistant have been isolated in Granada until new tests and a definitive result are carried out.

Granada carried out new PCR tests yesterday and this morning antigen tests after the player Jesús Vallejo and two more members of Diego Martínez's coaching staff tested positive for coronavirus in the analyzes provided for in the UEFA protocol for the Europa League match.

The two positives, in addition to Vallejo, are Raúl Espínola and José Alfonso Morcillo, second coach and physical trainer respectively of Granada who, like the player, have been confined since yesterday, While the other inconclusive result today belongs to Juan Carlos Fernández, goalkeeping coach, the Ideal newspaper reported.