Celtic player tests positive for Covid-19 after team went drinking in Dubai

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News has broken today of a positive Covid-19 case inside Celtic’s first team just 1 week after outrage over the players and management were seen drinking by the pool in Dubai.

A statement from the Scottish club today revealed that their French defender Christopher Jullien tested positive and that they wished him ‘a speedy recovery’.

The government then deemed manager and assistant manger’s Neil Lennon and John Kennedy had been deemed close contacts along with 13 first team players meaning those 15 people will have to self isolate.

They discovered the positive Covid case around the time of their flights from Dubai. There was major outrage on social media over the team’s travelling away during the pandemic and it seems fans were proved right yet Celtic were defending themselves in the statement released today with the club saying –

“As we have already stated, Celtic’s decision to travel to Dubai for a training camp was for performance reasons. Whilst we were in Dubai, the announcements made on January 4 significantly changed the COVID landscape.

The reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland, as other cases have done in Scottish football and across UK sport in the past week.

Their match against Hibernian will go ahead today with the club missing nearly their entire first team.

 

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