More Real Madrid players suffer from COVID
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Spanish football giants Real Madrid announce that Marco Asensio, Gareth Bale, Andriy Lunin and Rodrygo, and head assistant coach Davide Ancelotti have tested positive for COVID-19 with mild symptoms.
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Real Madrid had already announced Wednesday that Modric and Marcelo had tested positive.
Four more Real Madrid players, including Gareth Bale, tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, joining Marcelo and Luka Modric.
"Real Madrid C. F. informs that our players Marco Asensio, Gareth Bale, Andriy Lunin and Rodrygo, and our head assistant coach Davide Ancelotti have tested positive for COVID-19," the club announced in a brief statement.
Local media reported that all five had mild symptoms.
Real Madrid had already announced Wednesday that Modric and Marcelo had tested positive, and on Monday the club also reported cases in its basketball team.
Under Liga protocols, a club must have at least 13 players, at least five of them first-teamers and one a goalkeeper, available to play a match.
This comes at a time where Britain is also battling a surge in positive cases caused by the new Omicron strain of the virus, with a record 88,376 cases recorded on Thursday.
For its part, the English Premier League postponed two matches due to the worsening coronavirus pandemic but said it intended to "continue its current fixture schedule where safely possible."
Manchester United’s fixture against Brighton & Hove Albion this weekend has been postponed by the #PL Board today
— Premier League (@premierleague) December 16, 2021
It is the League’s intention to continue its current fixture schedule where safely possible
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The #PL Board has postponed Leicester's match against Spurs tonight due to an increase in positive COVID-19 cases within @LCFC's squad today
— Premier League (@premierleague) December 16, 2021
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