(Reuters) – Barcelona midfielder Philippe Coutinho, defender Sergino Dest and winger Ez Abde have examined positive for COVID-19, the LaLiga membership stated on Thursday.
The Catalans have been hit by various COVID-19 instances of their squad, with Ousmane Dembele, Samuel Umtiti and Gavi set to overlook Sunday’s LaLiga journey to Real Mallorca after testing positive.
Clement Lenglet, Dani Alves, Jordi Alba and Alejandro Balde additionally returned positive checks this week.
“Footballers Sergino Dest, Coutinho and Ez Abde have examined positive for COVID-19. The gamers are in good well being and self-isolating at dwelling. The membership has reported the instances to the related authorities,” Barcelona stated in an announcement.
Barca, who final performed within the league in a 1-1 draw at Sevilla on Dec. 21, are seventh on 28 factors from 18 video games.
Real Madrid are additionally coping with a COVID-19 outbreak of their squad with Thibaut Courtois, Federico Valverde, Eduardo Camavinga, Vinicius Jr returning positive checks on Wednesday.
Luka Modric, Rodrygo, Marco Asensio, Gareth Bale, Marcelo, Andriy Lunin, Isco and David Alaba additionally examined positive earlier this month.
Spain’s 14-day an infection charge hit a brand new document of 1,360 instances per 100,000 folks on Tuesday, rising from 1,206 instances the day prior to this and marking a five-fold improve for the reason that starting of December.
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris)
