After being the

protagonist of an outbreak

that has affected more than

100 people

, between positives (more than 30) and close contacts,

Sporting de Gijón

today issued a statement explaining the

chronology of the events

that have led to the

ten infections for coronavirus in the club

, nine in the first team and one in the coaching staff, and it has been defended by ensuring that the origin is in the

"social and family environment, not in the facilities of Mareo".

The Asturian team specified the beginning of the contagions on the 27th, when

a player said he was ill "after training together with the retrainer

(he had a fever, back pain and headache), so a test is carried out at home of those contributed by LaLiga, with a positive result ", reports Sporting.

"He gets in touch with the Club doctor, who does another test (antigens) that confirms the positive."

Some members of the squad, who had undergone a PCR and an antigen test on days 19 and 20 without any positive result, were at that time scattered throughout the Principality of

Asturias

, so the club's management decided to carry out another test of antigens to the soccer players who had had contact with the player who had tested positive.

All of them are also positive

.

"After knowing the positives, it was decided, in a preventive way, to summon all the members of the squad who were in Asturias at that time to pass the antigen tests, not only players but also assistants and staff who had been in some moment in contact with the affected players ", explains the club.

"

27 more people

were tested

(12 players and 15 staff members), resulting in

2 positive

of those who had been in contact with a player affected. The rest were negative in the tests."

From that moment, Sporting assures, "all players who remain at home are notified until the PCR test scheduled according to LaLiga protocol to be carried out on Monday, December 28 in the afternoon."

The Asturian team defends itself by ensuring that

"not one more contagion was detected after the PCR on the 28th

and the protocol set by LaLiga was followed at all times", and resolves the total number of cases in the club in nine in the first team and one of an auxiliary.

The origin was not in seasickness

After explaining its version of the chronology of events, the club assures that

since it occurred during the vacation period

, the origin of these infections would not be in the facilities of Mareo, which would be their responsibility, but in the family and social environment of the football players.

"

The origin of the outbreak should be located in the social or family environment

of people domiciled in Gijón, but in no case in the Mareo Football School."

In addition, they have ruled out that these positives belong to the new British strain of the virus.

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