(Reuters) – Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta will sit out Saturday’s Premier League game at residence to Manchester City after testing positive for COVID-19, the membership mentioned on Wednesday.
Arsenal are fourth within the desk on 35 factors after 19 video games, 12 factors behind leaders City.
“Mikel is isolating in keeping with Government tips and we want him nicely,” Arsenal mentioned in an announcement https://www.arsenal.com/information/mikel-arteta-miss-manchester-city-match.
Arteta beforehand examined positive in March 2020, shortly earlier than the pandemic pressured the Premier League to shut down for greater than three months.
The 39-year-old can be the most recent Premier League supervisor to test positive after Crystal Palace boss Patrick Vieira nL1N2TB04Q and Aston Villa’s Steven Gerrard nL1N2TA06A.
A file 103 positive nL1N2TC0QL COVID-19 circumstances have been discovered amongst gamers and workers within the Premier League over the previous week following a raft of fixture postponements in the course of the busy festive interval.
Britain reported a file 129,471 nL1N2TD0ZK new circumstances of COVID-19 on Tuesday because it battles a surge in infections fuelled by the Omicron variant.
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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