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Sports News of Sunday, 10 May 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Third Brighton player tests positive for COVID-19

Brighton's chief executive Paul Barber Brighton's chief executive Paul Barber

Premier League side, Brighton and Hove Albion have confirmed that a third player has tested positives for the deadly COVID-19.

This is coming after the CEO confirmed the club's first case in March as three members of the squad had shown symptoms of the respiratory illness.

Speaking to Sky Sports News, Barber confirmed a third member of the first-team group has produced a positive test despite the safety guidelines being in place.

"It is a concern," he said. "Unfortunately we've had a third player test positive yesterday (Saturday, May 9), so despite all of the measures that we've been taking over the past few weeks, where the players haven't been involved in any significant training at all, we've still suffered another player testing positive for the virus.

"So there are concerns and I think it's normal for all clubs to have those concerns. We want to make sure we do everything that we can to ensure those protocols are in place and are safe and secure and mitigate the risk as far as we can."

Speaking on the completion of the suspended league, he said:

"One of the things we've asked the Premier League for is a complete plan of all of the stages of returning to play," Barber said.

"First we need to get players back training in small groups, then they need to get involved in some contact training and then training for a match before the match itself.

"So there are lots of stages, it's very complex and there are people at the Premier League working very hard to produce detailed paperwork to move through those stages as safely as possible."