{"id":553507,"date":"2020-06-12T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=553507"},"modified":"2020-06-12T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:42:19","slug":"oxford-united-confirm-two-positive-coronavirus-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/06\/12\/oxford-united-confirm-two-positive-coronavirus-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United Confirm Two Positive Coronavirus Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/search\/Oxford+united\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxford United<\/a> have confirmed that two people at the club have tested positive for coronavirus. The results have come from the third round of testing after the first two all came back negative.<\/p>\n<h2>Oxford United Confirm Two Positive Coronavirus Tests<\/h2>\n<h3>Confirmation<\/h3>\n<p>The individuals, whose identities will remain anonymous for the meantime, have been asked to self-isolate for the next ten days. The club confirmed that neither individual had shown any symptoms before the results.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes less than 24 hours after the U&#8217;s playoff opponents <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/06\/10\/portsmouth-confirm-two-positive-coronavirus-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portsmouth confirmed that two of their players had connected the virus.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Karl Robinson&#8217;s Reaction<\/h3>\n<p>Karl Robinson told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oufc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/june\/two-positive-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club&#8217;s official website:<\/a> \u201c I am sure the fans will appreciate the honesty from us over this but I hope in some way we can turn a negative into a positive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have said all along that we have to take the rough with the smooth but you can be anyone, anywhere and catch this terrible virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want fans to read this and just stick to all the available guidelines and advice because it can honestly happen to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully they don\u2019t have symptoms and as soon as we heard we went through all the data available from training &#8211;\u00a0we can see who was where and whether there was any contact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have supplied that data to our opponents, and the league, ahead of a friendly tomorrow and that should go ahead still.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have thoroughly reviewed everything we have been doing this week and are satisfied that everything has been done with player and staff welfare as a priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have learned to be flexible and we will adapt once again but the message to all the fans is to respect the guidelines that we are all living by right now, and most importantly, stay safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"nywCZXBKSP1od_xRfMbTbQ\" 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\/1222457659\" 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:'nywCZXBKSP1od_xRfMbTbQ',sig:'t6bReQVParFW1V0FmDh3b7XKOL1CmuVNyGynaT0fAi4=',w:'594px',h:'408px',items:'1222457659',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>Oxford United have confirmed that two people at the club have tested positive for coronavirus. The results have come from the third round of testing after the first two all came back negative. Oxford United Confirm Two Positive Coronavirus Tests Confirmation The individuals, whose identities will remain anonymous for the meantime, have been asked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":553509,"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":[4906,168,166,188,243,914,136],"class_list":["post-553507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league12","category-league-football","category-featured","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-efl","tag-karl-robinson","tag-league-one","tag-oxford-united","tag-portsmouth","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553507","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=553507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}