Travelling Reggae Boy tests positive for COVID-19

A National player has tested positive for Covid-19. The player, who was in quarantine at the UWI/JFF Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence since Wednesday, was tested on Friday morning and the result became available today (Saturday) while he was en route to Saudi Arabia. With the positive result, he will not make the rest of the journey but instead have been isolated in London before returning home.

Public health officers interviewed the three remaining players who were in quarantine with him and determined that they were low risks. They were allowed to travel under observance by team Doctor Bersha Cole.

The entire squad will be tested and quarantined for three days when they get to Saudi Arabia.

Alvas Powell, based overseas, will not make the trip, as one of his teammates at his club, Inter Miami, tested positive for the virus and he is deemed to be compromised. The two players were replaced by Tyreek Magee and Jeadine White.

The major part of the delegation left earlier today.