“Two players have positive tests, they are in rooms in the Olympic village,” TASS reports, citing a source.

It is specified that the friendly match between the Russian national team and the Czech team has been cancelled.

Instead of playing, the Russians will have a training session.

Russia will play the first match at the Olympics on February 4 with Switzerland.

The 2022 Games will be held in Beijing from 4 to 20 February. 

Earlier it was reported that the coach of the Russian men's biathlon team Sergei Bashkirov, who had been ill with a coronavirus infection in Beijing, came out of self-isolation two days later.