Olympique Marseille confirm three positive Covid-19 tests, three days before Ligue 1 starts
Just three days prior to the 2020-21 Ligue 1 campaign beginning, French club Olympique Marseille have three employees have tested positive for Covid-19.
Olympique Marseille announced three "suspected" coronavirus cases have been confirmed just three days before the start of the new Ligue 1 season. The French club revealed on Sunday that three individuals within their "professional workforce" had been detected as potentially having Covid-19.
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Their communication at the time indicated the club was seeking confirmation regarding these cases and follow-up tests on Monday all came back positive. These take the club's positive cases up to four in the past week.
🔵 Following the tests carried out on Monday, no new cases of #COVID19 were revealed, but Sunday's 3 suspected cases have been confirmed.
— Olympique de Marseille 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 (@OM_English) August 18, 2020
The Club has sent all the details to the @LFPfr. pic.twitter.com/WjYdI6dQIG
Marseille are due to kick off the 2020-21 Ligue 1 campaign this Friday at home to Saint-Étienne – it is unclear how these new positive tests will impact on that scheduled fixture. Friday's match will be the first Ligue 1 game since early March, when French authorities suspended action due to the coronavirus – the competition was then officially ended prematurely on 28 April.