Valencia announced that 35% of its staff have coronaviruses

Valencia have reported that there have been new cases of coronavirus among technicians and players of their first team and, although they have not specified the number, they have indicated that they are all asymptomatic and entail the permanence of those affected in their homes.

All of them, he adds, are subject to medical monitoring and isolation measures and can carry out the scheduled work plan normally.

This information has been released a day after Valencia communicated this Sunday that had detected five positive cases in the first team, one of them Ezequiel Garay, and that it was later known that Eliaquim Mangala and José Luis Gayà were also affected.

In the writing of this Monday, Valencia indicates that "despite the strict measures adopted" by the club after the dispute on February 19 of the Champions League match against Atalanta de Bergamo in Milan, an area confirmed as high risk by the Italian authorities days later, and the distancing of the workforce from the work environment and the general public, "The latest results show that the inherent exposure to parties has caused around 35% of positive cases." This has caused the Atalanta players and staff to isolate themselves.

"Valencia CF takes advantage of this new highly contagious test for the virus to insist that the population stay at home and strictly follow all the hygiene and prevention measures already published," continues the Mestalla club statement. "It also reinforces confidence in our health system and in the recommendations of the Ministry of Health for those mild cases of coronavirus infection that are in home isolation," he concludes.

The coronavirus epidemic worsened this Monday with nearly 1,500 more cases in Spain, which will close its land borders to contain the advance of the disease. According to data from the Ministry of Health, it is the second most affected European country after Italy, with 309 deaths and 9,191 cases, almost 1,500 more in just 24 hours.

Against this background, and to contain the expansion of the coronavirus, the government will close the land borders at midnight, which means temporarily suspending the free mobility of people in the European Schengen area.