{"id":10593,"date":"2021-07-14T16:09:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T10:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=125928"},"modified":"2021-07-14T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T10:39:45","slug":"birmingham-goalkeeper-neil-etheridge-being-treated-in-hospital-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/birmingham-goalkeeper-neil-etheridge-being-treated-in-hospital-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham goalkeeper Neil Etheridge being treated in hospital for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Championship club Birmingham City has confirmed that goalkeeper Neil Etheridge is being treated in hospital for coronavirus. T<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">he 31-year-old Philippines international recently returned at the end of June to Birmingham for preseason training, but now he is being treated in hospital after contracting the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club can confirm that @Neil38Etheridge is currently receiving treatment in hospital for COVID-19,\u201d read a club statement on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone at #BCFC is sending him all our strength and best wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Club can confirm that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Neil38Etheridge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Neil38Etheridge<\/a> is currently receiving treatment in hospital for COVID-19. <\/p>\n<p>Everyone at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BCFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BCFC<\/a> is sending him all our strength and best wishes. \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wCSqfwUrjB\">pic.twitter.com\/wCSqfwUrjB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Birmingham City FC (@BCFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCFC\/status\/1415212210775789570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Craig Gardner, the club\u2019s technical director, and former midfielder told the club\u2019s website, \u201cOn behalf of the Board, the staff, the players and everyone connected to the club, we\u2019re all behind Neil and willing him on in his battle against COVID-19.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">We\u2019re in constant contact with his close family and will continue to support them in any way we can.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">He\u2019s in the best possible hands and we\u2019re hopeful we can all welcome him home at the earliest opportunity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The club signed him from Championship rivals Cardiff City in September last year. During his debut season with Blues, he appeared in 43 Championship matches as they finished in 18th place after flirting with relegation. The highly infectious Delta variant continues to spread in the UK, where 36,660 new cases and 50 deaths were recorded on Tuesday. Presently, 2,700 people with the virus are in hospitals. Total vaccinations have reached 45,978,017, including 54,296 first-time doses and 125,360 second-time doses on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On August 7, Birmingham opens the new Championship season against recently relegated Premier League side Sheffield United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After returning to pre-season training with Birmingham, Neil Etheridge is now being treated for coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":33070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[732,2334,1903,1223,218,2135,43],"class_list":["post-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-city","tag-championship","tag-philippines","tag-premier-league","tag-sheffield-united","tag-uk"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593","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\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}