Zubeldia, positive for coronavirus, falls against Osasuna

Igor Zubeldia will not be able to play this Saturday against Osasuna in the last league match. The Azkoitiarra player has tested positive for coronavirus in the latest PCR tests to which the team's squad has been subjected Real society ahead of this week's league match, following the protocols set by The league. It is already isolated and in good condition at home. In the next few hours, the rest of the players will be subjected to backup tests to rule out that there may be more positive cases in the first team of the txuri-urdin club.

The Royal Society has communicated the new positive for coronavirus in its squad by means of a statement published on its website. “The members of the first txuri-urdin squad, together with technicians and Club employees, have passed new PCR tests today. Among the results of these tests there is a new positive case within the squad, which is already isolated at home The case has been communicated to the competent health authorities. ” As the Real usually acts in this type of medical cases, it does not offer the name of the affected player, something that it leaves in the hands of the protagonist himself, who can make it public or remain anonymous. In this case, Igor Zubeldia has decided to communicate that this last positive for COVID-19 in La Real has been him. He has announced it through his social networks. “I wanted to let you know that I have tested positive in today's Covid test. I'm very sorry I won't be able to help the team in the last final that we have left, but I am sure that we will achieve the goal,” he said. Zubeldia in your account Instagram.

Zubeldia's is the seventh positive case for coronavirus in the Royal squad since this health crisis began. The San Sebastian club has followed a strict protocol that has allowed it to be quite lucky with the disease affecting the first team dressing room, to the point that it has been since September last year without a new positive case. The last one dates from September 9 and was the Brazilian striker Willian José, currently on loan to Wolverhampton in England. If an outbreak was detected in the subsidiary team a month ago that affected several players who usually exercised with the first team, and more serious was the case of the first women's team, which had to be confined in its entirety for eight cases, among positives and direct contacts, which forced him to postpone a league match.