Three footballers from Boca Juniors, Iván Marcone, Walter Bou and Agustín Lastra, tested positive for COVID-19 and will therefore be subjected to the “isolation protocol” with respect to the rest of the squad for 72 hours, the Argentine club reported on Wednesday.
“Boca reports that, after the third Covid 19 early detection swab, Iván Marcone, Walter Bou and Agustín Lastra were positive, who will undergo the isolation protocol of the training group for 72 hours until further control according to the rules, “the team said on its official Twitter profile.
He Xeneize carried out “more than 300 PCR tests” on 217 people from the return to training, a figure that includes players, technical and medical staff, as well as personnel from the administrative, security and cleaning areas.
In that sense, until now they have presented positivity a total of 11 people within the club, 5% of the total, which were completely asymptomatic, according to Boca Juniors.
Thus, the cases of Marcone, Bou and Lastra join the first positive registered by Boca Juniors, the 20-year-old midfielder Agustin Almendra, who was also asymptomatic at the time of swabbing.
Boca Juniors, River Plate, Racing Club, Defense and Justice and Tigre, the five teams from the South American country that will participate in less than a month in the Copa Libertadores, the most important competition on the continent, have at least one infected player.
On September 17, Boca Juniors will visit the Paraguayan Libertad, River Plate to the Brazilian Sao Paulo, Tigre to the Paraguayan Guaraní, Racing Club will receive the Uruguayan National and Defense and Justice the Ecuadorian Dolphin.
Likewise, the protocol put together by the Argentine Soccer Association (AFA) and approved by the Ministry of Health requires teams to train in groups of six or fewer players and to maintain a distance between them.
The AFA ended the 2019/20 season and has not yet announced when or how the next local tournament will be played.