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The Covid-19 epidemic as well as the controversy continue to swell in the ranks of the Uruguayan football selection, which now has 16 cases after the announcement Friday of the positive test of defender Diego Godin (Cagliari).
The government is now awaiting explanations from the Uruguayan football federation while Atlético de Madrid, where two players of the selection tested positive, including Luis Suarez, are furious.
The president of Atlético, Enrique Cerezo, denounced the laxity of the measures taken by Celeste.
"They have not been tested," he pleaded Thursday to Cadena Ser radio.
In Spain "we check them before and after the match and training", he added.
A complaint to Fifa?
According to Spanish media, La Liga intends to file a complaint with Fifa.
"We were careful but we are not invulnerable," defended Celso Otero, assistant coach of Celeste.
The Uruguayan Minister of Health, Daniel Salinas, also demanded explanations from the federation “for its responsibility in respecting the protocols”.
Daniel Salinas was moved by a photo shared on Twitter on Saturday showing nine players, some with a thermos of hot water and their mate (traditional infusion) cup they supposedly shared, gathered around a barbecue.
Five of them are now positive.
"There was a certain recklessness," said the minister to the press.
Full-back Matias Vidal, the first player to test positive in the selection, after the victory against Colombia (3-0), plays for the Brazilian club Palmeiras, which has had 17 cases.
Uruguay, which has long kept the epidemic under control, sees the number of infections increase slightly (82 new cases in twenty-four hours), the country of 3.5 million inhabitants had 4.377 positive cases and 69 death.
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