Five Red Star Belgrade players test positive after matches with crowds - GulfToday

Five Red Star Belgrade players test positive after matches with crowds

  • 22 Jun 2020
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Red Star Belgrade supporters wave flags during the Serbian Cup semi-final football match in Belgrade. AFP

Five players from Serbian club Red Star Belgrade have tested positive for coronavirus after playing several matches attended by thousands of people, the club said Monday.

The announcement came 12 days after Red Star faced city rivals Partizan Belgrade in front of a crowd of around 16,000 people, the largest gathering of that kind in Europe since the beginning of the pandemic.

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The Serbian government has been loosening lockdown rules and earlier this month it announced that open-air gatherings with an unlimited amount of people would be allowed.

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Partizan fans support their team prior a Serbian National Cup semi final soccer match between Partizan and Red Star, in Belgrade, Serbia. AP

But coverage from television channel RTS appeared to show little sign of health guidelines in place at the match with Partizan as well as at other league games.

Following the final match of the season against Proleter on Saturday, Red Star Belgrade celebrated winning the Serbian title with more than 10,000 of their fans.

At least four of the five players did not play in that last match as they had felt coronavirus symptoms ahead of it, the club said.

Agence France-Presse

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