{"id":10016,"date":"2020-06-30T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=19239"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T10:52:13","slug":"coronavirus-premier-league-confirms-one-positive-result-in-latest-testing-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/coronavirus-premier-league-confirms-one-positive-result-in-latest-testing-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Premier League confirms one positive result in latest testing round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League said on Monday that there was one positive result from the latest round of COVID-19 tests of players and staff conducted last week, taking the total number of cases to 19 since testing began last month.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The English top flight restarted its season earlier this month after a 100-day hiatus due to the pandemic while the FA Cup quarter-final ties, which featured eight Premier League teams, were played over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League can today confirm that between Monday 22 June and Sunday 28 June, 2,250 players and club staff were tested for COVID-19. Of these, one person has tested positive,\u201d the league said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The league did not reveal the club or the name of the individual who tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Since players returned to contact training last month, tests have been carried out since May 17 and the league has conducted 11 rounds of testing so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League said on Monday that there was one positive result from the latest round of COVID-19 tests of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":32524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}