National, four positive staff members

Four staff members of the Italian national team who participated in the qualifying matches for the World Cup in Qatar tested positive for Coronavirus. FIGC communicates this in a note.

the press release

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“After the last screening of all the equipment carried out according to the Uefa Protocol by molecular test on Monday, March 29 in Sofia (Bulgaria), a negative result for all the subjects evaluated, on the morning of Tuesday, March 30, one of the members of the technical staff complained of mild symptoms (pharyngodynia). As a precaution, the indicated subject was immediately isolated and did not follow the team on the next trip to Lithuania. Upon his return to Italy, the subject was subjected today to a molecular test. the whose result was reported positive in the early afternoon. Therefore, subsequently, the other staff members who had maintained close relationships were also isolated in Vilnius (Lithuania) and immediately subjected to a new molecular test, whose The result for three of them was positively communicated in the minutes following the conclusion of the Lithuania-Italy match. I was excluded from the delegation. “