Arturo Vidal – Fabrizio Carabelli / LiveMedia / Shutterstock / SIPA
Worry around from Arturo Vidal. The Inter Milan midfielder was hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19, we learn from a statement from the Chilean national team, with whom he was to face Argentina in a match counting towards the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup.
“The medical corps of the Chilean national team emphasizes that at the request of the player Arturo Vidal, it is announced that he has been diagnosed positive for Covid, during the daily preventive examination carried out today, Monday May 31” , indicates a statement published on the site of the Chilean national team.
Isolated from the rest of the group
Previously, the medical team had reported that Vidal was not training and had been separated from the rest of the team for presenting “a febrile syndrome due to dehydrated tonsillitis sicca”. But a new press release indicates that the midfielder “was hospitalized and isolated from the group for more than 72 hours (…) due to severe pleural tonsillitis”. The PCR tests that had been performed in the past three days were all negative.
Covid-19 infections in Chile remain above 6,000 daily and the national health system is overwhelmed. After 14 months of pandemic, the Covid-19 killed 29,000 people for 1.3 million cases in the country.