Barca defender Umtiti tests positive for coronavirus
Barcelona defender Samuel Umtiti has tested positive for coronavirus, the club announced on Friday.
"Following the PCR tests completed on Thursday, the first team player Samuel Umtiti has tested positive for Covid-19. The players is asymptomatic, is in good health insurance and is isolating at home," read a Barca statement.
"The club has informed the relevant sporting and health authorities and also tracing all the people who have had contact with the player in order that they are able to undergo the corresponding PCR tests."
Umtiti hadn't travelled anyway to Lisbon because of injury, with Barcelona against Bayern Munich there on Friday in the Champions League quarter-finals.
His infection employs Barca youth team player Jean-Clair Todibo also tested positive on Wednesday.
It continues a spate of positive tests among Spanish clubs in recent weeks after Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia and Athletic Bilbao have all been among the clubs to report cases.
