Piteå lost to Eskilstuna with 0-2 in the club's home premiere in the damallsvenskan 2021. Later in the afternoon, Piteå's team doctor Arne Zingmark confirmed that one of the players in the squad had tested positive for covid-19.
- Everyone felt good according to the screening that is always done.
So everyone felt good before the match, both players and leaders.
Then in connection with the match, someone got symptoms and then left the pitch.
Then tests were taken and they turned out to be positive and then the player had to go home at once, says Zingmark to SVT Sport.
Four players became infected
A total of four have tested positive for covid-19 in Piteå.
- After the match, the whole team was screened and then it turned out unfortunately that several players were infected, but they are asymptomatic.
How many is it?
- There are four in total.
One with symptoms, the rest are asymptomatic.
"Isolated from time to time"
Could you have done something different?
- It is extremely difficult to predict and see, it has turned out these and a half years that this has been going on.
For the team, it is not the case that we have not had a single case of infection in 15 months.
We have followed recommendations and guidelines.
We have tested from time to time, we have isolated from time to time.
About two weeks ago, a player tested positive.
That player was isolated.
All players and leaders were tested after that, all tests were negative.
Piteå has paused operations.