{"id":553368,"date":"2020-06-10T14:08:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=553368"},"modified":"2020-06-10T14:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:26:19","slug":"portsmouth-confirm-two-positive-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/06\/10\/portsmouth-confirm-two-positive-coronavirus-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth Confirm Two Positive Coronavirus Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">League One side <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/search\/Portsmouth\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portsmouth<\/a> have confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portsmouthfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/june\/portsmouth-fc-statement-covid-19-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two players have tested positive for COVID-19<\/a> following their second round of testing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The testing took place Monday, but the club have kept their identity unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcf0 Portsmouth FC statement: Covid-19 testing \u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pompey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Pompey<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oiZdzXTmng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/oiZdzXTmng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Portsmouth FC (@Pompey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pompey\/status\/1270770430555684865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Portsmouth Confirm Two Positive Coronavirus Cases<\/h2>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Players to Self-Isolate<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a result, the two players will now self-isolate in accordance with the EFL guidelines. The club have kept the players&#8217; confidentiality intact and have declined to comment any further on the matter.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The club did, however, suggest they neither player were showing any symptoms ahead of testing. But, back in March, five Blues players were found to have coronavirus following tests.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There have been six positive tests from the Championship, while in League Two all tests came back as negative. The only two positive tests from League One came from the Portsmouth players in question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">League One Playoffs<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Portsmouth will face <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/search\/Oxford+United+\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxford United<\/a> in the League One play-off semi-finals. Earlier today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/sport\/18507803.0xford-uniteds-second-coronavirus-test-results-negative\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the U&#8217;s confirmed no positive tests<\/a> following their second round of testing and will begin training in larger groups as a result.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#oufc<\/a>&#39;s second batch of coronavirus tests were all clear. It allows them to step up training and they have permission to play a friendly on Saturday:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8wHIwF4jb6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/8wHIwF4jb6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oxford Mail OUFC (@OxfordMailOUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OxfordMailOUFC\/status\/1270653062949019648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The news that two Pompey players have contracted the virus is highly unlikely to affect the playoffs or prevent them from going ahead, but the announcement could affect the rest of the squad and non-playing staff.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">How have Pompey fans reacted?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At least we have our excuse for the playoffs now<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stewart Carnegie (@Stewartcarnegie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stewartcarnegie\/status\/1270770785238634497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/pompeycal2\/status\/1270773427759190016?s=19<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please not burgey\ud83d\ude29<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ash Farrell (@AshPFC4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AshPFC4\/status\/1270770861478379526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Main Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a id=\"AM85uLDfSb5dvQBw04OwBg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1213762869\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'AM85uLDfSb5dvQBw04OwBg',sig:'0ll1aZlawXckSphJRjhfL22ztcgZkUoh50zAWyS4Suw=',w:'594px',h:'406px',items:'1213762869',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League One side Portsmouth have confirmed that two players have tested positive for COVID-19 following their second round of testing. The testing took place Monday, but the club have kept their identity unknown at this time. \ud83d\udcf0 Portsmouth FC statement: Covid-19 testing \u2b07\ufe0f#Pompeyhttps:\/\/t.co\/oiZdzXTmng &mdash; Portsmouth FC (@Pompey) June 10, 2020 Portsmouth Confirm Two Positive Coronavirus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":553371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,2,30],"tags":[4906,188,243,5595,914,136],"class_list":["post-553368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league12","category-league-football","category-featured","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-league-one","tag-oxford-united","tag-playoffs","tag-portsmouth","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}