{"id":1876,"date":"2020-12-15T17:01:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2020-12-15T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:01:06","slug":"coronavirus-six-premier-league-footballers-test-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/?p=1876","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Six Premier League footballers test positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"The Premier League said on Monday that six people had returned positive results in its latest round of COVID-19 tests conducted on players and staff last week.<\/p>\n<p>The league said the individuals who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus would now self-isolate for 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Premier League can today confirm that between Monday 7 December and Sunday 13 December, 1,549 players and Club staff were tested for COVID-19. Of these, there were six new positive tests,\u201d the league said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 106 people have tested positive for the virus in 15 rounds of testing this season.<\/p>\n<p>There have been more than 1.8 million COVID-19 infections and over 64,000 deaths in the United Kingdom, according to a Reuters tally.<\/p>\n<p>Last Update: Tuesday, 15 December 2020 KSA 01:05 &#8211; GMT 22:05<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League said on Monday that six people had returned positive results in its latest round of COVID-19 tests conducted on players and staff last week. The league said the individuals who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus would now self-isolate for 10 days. \u201cThe Premier League can today confirm that between Monday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}