Italian champion Juventus announced on Saturday that its entire squad has gone into isolation after two staff members tested positive for COVID-19.
Juventus, which is scheduled to host Napoli on Sunday, confirmed those returning positive tests were "neither players nor members of the technical or medical staff."
Team in fiduciary isolationhttps://t.co/iVRUG23N4e pic.twitter.com/GWe5dRxHsj
— JuventusFC (@juventusfcen) October 3, 2020
"This procedure will allow all members who tested negative to the controls to carry out regular training and match activities, but will not be allowed contact with outside the group," the club said in a statement.
"The club is in constant contact with the competent health authorities."
In a separate statement, Juventus declared that they will take the field for the Napoli match on Sunday.
However, Italian news agencies reported that Napoli had been prevented from travelling to Turin by local health authorities due to the possibility of a coronavirus outbreak in the squad.
Two Napoli players, Piotr Zielinski and Elif Elmas, and a staff member returned positive COVID-19 tests less than a week after the club hosted Genoa, who have themselves been hit by a spate of cases.
The results of the last four tests have revealed that Elif Elmas has tested positive for Covid-19.
— Official SSC Napoli (@en_sscnapoli) October 3, 2020
Genoa, whose game at home to Torino on Saturday had already been postponed, said on Friday that two more players and one more staff member had returned positive COVID-19 tests, bringing the total to 19 in the last week.
(Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru and Crispian Balmer in Rome; editing by Ian Chadband)
