Spain’s preparations for the European Championship have been thrown into chaos after Sergio Busquets tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday morning, forcing the squad to go into isolation and to pull out of their final warm-up game against Lithuania on Tuesday night. Spain face an anxious wait to see whether other positive results emerge over the next week, with PCR tests carried out daily. Spain’s players have not been vaccinated, despite a request to the health ministry. Busquets, the captain, was removed from Las Rozas in medicalised transport and returned home to Barcelona, where he will have to spend 10 days in isolation. Busquets is the 12th Spain player to have tested positive for Covid after Thiago Alcantara, Mikel Oyarzabal, Eric Garcia, Aymeric Laporte, Marcos Llorente, Alvaro Morata, Pablo Sarabia, Fabian Ruiz, Adama Traore, Jose Luis Gaya, and Ferran Torres, who has tested positive twice.

Source: The Irish Times June 07, 2021 11:11 UTC