Fertiberia squad placed in quarantine after two first-team positives

The Fertiberia Balonmano Puerto Sagunto first-team squad will be quarantined for the next 10 days after two players tested positive for coronavirus. The red-and-white club has requested the postponement of the matches against Villa de Aranda (21/10) and Ademar León (24/10), following the suspension earlier in the week of the match against Granollers (16/10) because of the Catalan side’s contact with people who tested positive for COVID-19. The club’s medical team has placed the entire squad in quarantine in accordance with the protocol set out by the Generalitat Valenciana, which states that close contacts with the virus must undergo PCR tests and observe a 10-day quarantine.

According to red-and-white club president Juanjo Bataller: ‘Every Monday, as a safety measure, the entire squad undergoes serological tests. However, as some players were showing symptoms similar to those of coronavirus, antigen tests were carried out on this group of players on Tuesday afternoon. Two of them tested positive, but as rapid tests are not highly reliable, PCR tests were carried out on the two antigen-positive players yesterday and training was suspended. We received the positive result this morning and informed the health authorities and the Competition Committee, requesting the suspension of the matches against Villa de Aranda and Ademar de León’.

For his part, the club’s medical officer, José Ignacio García, said that the Generalitat Valenciana’s action protocol was being followed: ‘ All close contacts of those who tested positive must observe a 10-day quarantine, in case they develop symptoms, and undergo a PCR test. In this case, a close contact is considered to be a person who has ‘lived with’ ’ the two positive cases without safety measures from two days before symptoms developed, specifically, in this case, since last Saturday, 10 October’

‘The two positive cases have mild symptoms. The rest of the squad will undergo PCR tests this week and, according to the protocol, the quarantine will last 10 days from the notification of the positive cases to Public Health, that is, from today, 14 October, until the 24th, provided there are no further incidents’, José Ignacio García concluded.

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