Paris (AFP)
Pillar Mohammed Haouas (Montpellier) and winger Gabin Villière (Toulon) have tested positive for Covid-19, the second and third cases among Blues players after Antoine Dupont, the French eight-day rugby federation announced on Saturday of the match against Scotland.
Toulonnais Jean-Baptiste Gros and Swan Rebbadj are considered as "contact cases" because of the situation in their club.
Of the thirty-two tests carried out on Friday evening, twenty-nine came back negative, including that of captain Charles Ollivon (Toulon), of the second lines Bernard Le Roux (Racing 92) and Paul Willemse (Montpellier), of the Gaël Fickou center (Stade French), rear Brice Dulin (La Rochelle) or wingers Teddy Thomas (Racing 92) and Damian Penaud (Clermont) ...
The day before, the FFR had revealed that the scrum half Antoine Dupont had also tested positive, a few days after the coach Fabien Galthié, the forward coach William Servat and another member of the Blues management whose name does not was not given.
A new list of 31 players summoned to prepare Marcoussis for the match against Scotland on February 28 will be communicated on Sunday, the first day of the rally.
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