FIVE INDIA HOCKEY PLAYERS TEST COVID+

NEW DELHI: The Sports Authority of India said that Indian hockey team captain Manpreet Singh and four other players have tested positive for coronavirus.

Other players diagnosed with the virus are Surender Kumar, Jaskaran Singh, Varun Kumar and Krishan B Pathak, who is the most recent among the five players to test positive.

“Hockey players Manpreet Singh, Surender Kumar, Jaskaran Singh, and Varun Kumar, who reported to the National Hockey Camp in Sports Authority of India’s NCOE in Bengaluru along with the team, after a home break, have tested COVID-19 positive,” SAI said in a statement.

SAI said that all four players tested negative in the “rapid test” but later, Manpreet and Surender began to display some COVID-19 symptoms.