FC Barcelona president tests positive for COVID-19

59-year old president of FC Barcelona Joan Laporta tested positive on Tuesday.

Report informs, citing Football Espana, that Laporta had been in direct contact with people who had tested positive, so an antigen test was performed on him that came back negative before a PCR test came back positive.

The news means that Barcelona’s president won’t travel with the team to Linares on Wednesday or Granada on Saturday, and will instead isolate in line with the measures recommended.

Laporta’s asymptomatic.