Sky Blues confirm more Covid-19 cases
Manchester City confirmed three more cases of coronavirus yesterday, with goalkeeper Scott Carson, teenage midfielder Cole Palmer and a member of staff testing positive.
City were without six other players for their Premier League victory at Chelsea on Sunday following positive tests.
“Manchester City FC can confirm that Scott Carson, Cole Palmer and one member of staff have tested positive for Covid-19,” the club said in a statement.
“Both personnel will now observe a period of self-isolation in accordance with Premier League and UK government protocol on quarantine.”
First-choice goalkeeper Ederson, Ferran Torres, Tommy Doyle and Eric Garcia are the other players already isolating.
Kyle Walker and Gabriel Jesus, who tested positive on Christmas Day, have now completed their quarantine period.
The Premier League said on Tuesday that 40 players and staff had tested positive for Covid-19 in the latest rounds of testing — more than double the previous record.
Despite a number of match postponements, rising case numbers and calls from some within the game for a “circuit breaker” to bring infection rates down, the Premier League said it remained confident the season could proceed as planned.
MORGAN HAS VIRUS
Alex Morgan, a two-time World Cup winner with the US women’s football team, has tested positive for Covid19, the star striker said on Twitter on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, my family and I closed out 2020 learning that we had contracted Covid while in California over the holidays,” Morgan, 31, said in a Tweet.
“We are all in good spirits and recovering well. After our isolation is completed, I will follow US Soccer’s return to play guidelines to ensure my body is fully recovered and I can join my teammates back on the field soon.”
Morgan is married to former Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder Servando Carrasco, and the couple have a sevenmonth old daughter, Charlie.
The family returned to California from London, where Morgan had appeared in five matches for Tottenham in the Women’s Super League before announcing her intention to return to the United States to play in 2021.
She had been expected to report to the US women’s training camp later in January.