Barcelona's new recruit Miralem Pjanic tests positive for coronavirus
Football: Barcelona has announced that its new recruit, Miralem Pjanic, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Barcelona stated that the player is in 'good health' and is self-isolating at home.
The football club said in a statement that "Miralem Pjanic has tested positive in a PCR taken on Saturday, August 22, after feeling unwell. The player is in good health and is self-isolating at home."
Likewise, Pjanic took to Instagram and wrote in Italian, "Fortunately, I'm fine and asymptomatic. But if there is one thing I have learned, it is that we should never take anything for granted, not even the things that we consider the most routine. The life we are living now is teaching us that. We respect the rules and be careful without panicking."
"The player will therefore not be travelling to Barcelona for 15 days, when he will be expected to report for duty with the FC Barcelona team," the statement added.
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Pjanic joined Barcelona in June this year for 60 million euros ($70.7 million), making a shift from the Italian club Juventus. Miralem is the third Barcelona player to test positive for the contagion disease following the French defensive pair Samuel Umtiti and Jean-Clair Todibo.
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