And two that make three. After scrum-half Antoine Dupont (Toulouse) on Friday, pillar Mohammed Haouas (Montpellier) and winger Gabin Villière (Toulon) tested positive for Covid-19, the French Federation announced yesterday eight days before the match against Scotland.
Conquest and specific tasks co-trainer Karim Ghezal also tested positive, the FFR revealed in a second step. The only new case among the twenty-eight members of the Blues management tested on Friday.
Toulonnais Jean-Baptiste Gros and Swan Rebbadj are considered as “contact cases” because of the situation in their club.
“The results of the last PCR tests carried out on Friday confirmed negative results on the rest of the squad and the NRL has thus decided to maintain today’s meeting against Pau. The two players mentioned are therefore not more” contact case “than the other players in our workforce,” said the RCT in a statement to justify the tenure of the second appointed to the Hamlet.
Of the thirty-two tests carried out on Friday evening, twenty-nine came back negative, including that of captain Charles Ollivon (Toulon), of the second lines Bernard Le Roux (Racing 92) and Paul Willemse (Montpellier), of the Gaël Fickou center (Stade French), rear Brice Dulin (La Rochelle) or wingers Teddy Thomas (Racing 92) and Damian Penaud (Clermont) …
New roster of 31 players today
The day before, the FFR had revealed that the scrum half Antoine Dupont had also tested positive (asymptomatic), a few days after the coach Fabien Galthié, the forward coach William Servat and another member of the management of the Blues whose name was not given.
A new list of 31 players summoned to prepare Marcoussis for the match against Scotland on February 28 will be communicated today, the first day of the rally.
Leader of the VI Nations Tournament, after two successes in Italy (50-10) then in Ireland (15-13), the XV of France must receive Scotland at the Stade de France before going to England on March 13 then to ‘face Wales the following week.
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