A small number of Manchester United players and staff have tested positive for covid-19
Before Manchester United’s game against Norwich City last Saturday, routine covid-19 test was done and the results came out negative, thus all the players available against Norwich had negative results. However, a round of lateral flow testing on Sunday morning revealed positive results for a small number of players and staffs.
The names of the players and staffs who have tested positive have not been released yet. According to Goal, Manchester United is awaiting confirmatory results from PCR tests; lateral flow testing has been conducted before in July and it showed a number of positive results, however, later PCR tests confirmed negative results.
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It is understood that Manchester United have alerted the Premier League board about the situation. As at now, their game against Brentford on Tuesday is in doubt, but, Sky Sports reported that the game will still go on despite the positive cases.
Putting measures in place to contain the spread, should the positive cases be true, players whose results turned out positive were asked to quit training and go home. Also, players who had negative results were asked to train individually.
