Empoli, Italian Serie A club (First Division), confirmed this Friday six cases of contagion by coronavirus in the players of the first team, who are isolated according to the sanitary protocol of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).
“Empoli Football Club communicates that the tests carried out detected positive for covid of six elements of the team group “, reported the newly promoted team to Serie A in an official note.
The Tuscan club also assured that the friendly it had planned this Saturday against Cuiopelli it was annulled for security reasons.
The positives for the Empoli coronavirus occur in a moment of rebound of contagion cases in Italy, which registered more than 5,000 infected in the last 24 hours.
Many Serie A footballers have already received at least one dose of the vaccine, but an estimated 10% of them refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The new season will open on August 21 with the first day of Serie A.