Atletico Madrid learned on Sunday that two members of its organization of 93 people traveling to Portugal tested positive for coronavirus the day before flying to the neighbouring country.
PCR testing was conducted the Saturday before training, and the effects now affected their planned plans.
The other two people will now be remote and Atletico has activated the protocol they used in those cases.
“Yesterday Saturday 8 August all the members of the first team and the expedition of the club to Lisbon passed the PCR tests in the Sports City of Majadahonda, as required by UEFA’s protocol to participate in the quarter-finals of the Champions League”, says El Declaración del Atlético.
Among the effects known today [Sunday], two positive effects appeared, either remotely in their respective homes, and this without delay communicated to the Spanish and Portuguese fitness authorities, UEFA, the Spanish Football Federation, the Portuguese federation and the National. Sports Council.
In addition, the corresponding protocol of action envisaged for these instances has been activated, which requires further PCR testing in the first team and members of the expedition to Lisbon and contacts closer to the positive instances, and which has led to adjustments in education schedules, in the arrangement and progression and accommodation in the Portuguese capital.
“He will coordinate the new schedules with UEFA and as soon as there is a new plan, it will be made public.
We also ask for the utmost respect for the identity of the two cases.
Following the completion of LaLiga, Atletico Madrid asked the Spanish teams still competing in Europe to continue to do so voluntarily and with the assistance of LaLiga, following the same regulations of the prevention protocol opposed to COVID-19 that had developed the return to competition.
Although UEFA does not require negative PCR control of all members of the lisbon expedition up to 72 hours before the holiday scheduled for Monday, August 10, the club complied with the protocol established at that time through the National Sports and LaLiga Council, keeping weekly checks carried out at the return of the championship festival under the control of the same inspector of La Liga who supervised the compliance with the protocol 11 days of the championship.
The first team and all the staff in operation and in contact with them, a total of 93 people, underwent a PCR check and serological check the day before the return to education on Sunday, July 26, and the first session, scheduled separately for this Sunday. , postponed as a precaution to Monday 27 in the afternoon until it was known that one hundred per cent of the controls had tested negative.
After the first week of Array back, the first team and the other members of the club around them underwent new PCR tests on Sunday, August 2, with a new negative result in any case, taking up on Monday afternoon after experiencing the effects of testing. “
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