Mexican football club Cruz Azul has registered 22 positive cases for COVID-19. They are all asymptomatic.
There are 8 in his professional male team and 14 in his female team, announced the Mexican league (Liga MX).
“On June 24, new tests of COVID-19 were carried out on the players and the coaching of the first team. The assessment is 8 positive cases and 7 unspecified results”, explained the Liga MX in a press release concerning the men’s team.
Regarding the women’s team, the Mexican football league reported “14 positive cases and two indeterminate results”.
The 22 players who tested positive, as well as the nine others for whom the results are unknown, are all asymptomatic, according to the league.
The men’s team of Cruz Azul, based in Mexico, is currently carrying out its pre-season preparation outside the Mexican capital. But the club decided to transfer its infected players to the capital “to keep them in solitary confinement,” said La Liga MX.
Footballers tested positive are “under observation”, according to this source. Cruz Azul had registered two positive cases in the past week, including Uruguayan international striker Jonathan Rodriguez.
Due to the pandemic, the closing tournament 2020 of the Mexican football championship was definitively at the end of May by the league without crowning champion.
Football is set to resume in early July in Mexico, after a four-month hiatus, with a closed-door friendly tournament between eight teams, the revenues from TV rights of which will go to the children of healthcare workers who died during the pandemic.
The Mexican Cup must take place without an audience from July 3 to 19. The eight teams (Club América, Atlas, Cruz Azul, Guadalajara, Mazatlán, Pumas, Tigres and Toluca) will be divided into two groups, one based in Zapopan, the other in Mexico City.
With 25,779 deaths, for approximately 208,392 cases of infection in total, according to government figures released on Friday, Mexico has exceeded all of its initial COVID-19 forecasts and has been forced to postpone its plans to economic recovery.
