Valencia has announced two positive cases for Covid-19 in its squad after knowing the results to which the players who are going to start the preseason tomorrow underwent yesterday, under the command of Javi Gracia. The two people have been isolated in their homes and the club has notified the corresponding health authorities.
As usual in these cases, the identities of those who have tested positive have not been released although they could be players, members of the coaching staff or their most direct environment. It should be remembered that in the first days of the pandemic, in March, Valencia announced that 35% of the squad had tested positive after playing a Champions League match, in Milan, against Atalanta, at the end of February.
Likewise, yesterday Valencia had activated the protocol in Paterna as a positive was also detected in a player of the youth team who was also tested for the coronavirus to start the preseason.
The full statement that Valencia has announced this morning is the following:
“In the PCR and serological tests carried out this Monday to the first team, technical staff and more direct environment, on the occasion of the start of preseason work, two positive cases have been detected for COVID-19, which are isolated in their corresponding homes, from in accordance with LaLiga protocols and the VCF itself, which have already been immediately communicated to the health authorities.
Valencia, which from the first moment of this health crisis has given special importance to measures to stop the spread of the pandemic, will maintain a very strict protocol to which all members of the first team and their coaching staff are absolutely committed.“.