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01 April 2021 Leonardo Bonucci tested positive for Covid-19.
The defender of Juve and the national team returning from the away match with Mancini's blues is now in home isolation.
The player joins the four positives of the staff communicated by the FIGC after the match against Lithuania.
Bonucci
Still bad news for Juventus coach Andrea Pirlo a few days before the Derby against Torino.
The Juventus club has in fact announced that "Leonardo Bonucci, returning from the retirement of the Italian national team, this morning underwent a diagnostic molecular test for Covid 19 which tested positive. The player has already been placed in home isolation".
Bonucci is fresh from the trip with Roberto Mancini's national team in Lithuania, just yesterday after the match the Federation announced that four members of the blue staff tested positive for Covid after the last round of tampons performed in Sofia the day after the match against Bulgaria.
Bonucci will miss in addition to the derby on Saturday also the recovery on Wednesday 7 April against Napoli in the league, a match not played on 4 October 2020 precisely due to two cases of Covid in the blue group.
With Bonucci there are two Juventus players returning from Covid positive national teams, previously Merih Demiral, infected in Turkey, was also put in isolation.
The staff
Four members of the technical staff of the Italian national team tested positive for Covid-19.
The FIGC itself gave the news through its official website, specifying that all interested parties were isolated from the entire team.
"Following the last screening of the entire team group performed according to the Uefa Protocol by molecular test on Monday 29 March in Sofia (Bulgaria), a negative result for all tested subjects - reconstructs the Football Association - on the morning of Tuesday 30 March one of the members of the technical staff complained of a slight symptomatology (pharyngodynia).
As a precaution, the indicated subject was immediately isolated and did not follow the team in the next trip to Lithuania. Upon his return to Italy, the subject was subjected to molecular tests, whose result was reported positive. Therefore the other staff members who had maintained close relationships were also isolated in Vilnius (Lithuania) and immediately subjected to a new molecular test, the result of which for three of them was reported positive in the minutes after the conclusion of the Lithuania-Italy match Naturally, all positive subjects were excluded from the
the delegation ", reads the Federation website.
6 million for the national team
Still good ratings for Roberto Mancini's national team.
Yesterday's match with Lithuania, broadcast live on Rai1, won prime time ratings, recording 5,972,000 viewers and a 21.72% share.
The previous two matches valid for qualifying for the Qatar 2022 World Cup with Northern Ireland and Bulgaria, also broadcast on Rai1, were followed respectively by 6,129,000 viewers (22.64% share) and 6,394,000 spectators (23.7% share) ).