IS IT LIKELY THEY CAUGHT THE VIRUS IN PORTUGAL? The day 2 return tests are postal tests so are unlikely to have been done in time. This suggests the positives were among people who got tested on the day they got back or took a test before they left without getting the result. It generally takes a day to get an NHS test result back – longer if it's a home test, which most private travel test providers are – and then contact tracing takes place afterwards, so it's unlikely the process would be fast enough for the positive tests that led to the current isolation to come any later than Tuesday, June 1. People were tested before departure and not allowed to go if they had a negative result so, if the system worked, any positive tests should have come after the trip – although tests aren't perfect and up to half may get an incorrect result, depending on the test type. The same test result was allowed to be used for their return journey, because it was shorter than three days, and Government rules say they should do swab tests on day 2 (May 31 or June 1) and day 8 (June 6) after arriving home. Anyone with a positive result or no result should not have been allowed to travel. There were 6,000 tickets allocated to both teams for travelling fans with the Portugese government saying they must all travel as part of the group and stay in a 'match bubble' on the day before getting tested for Covid and flying home straight after the match.įans yesterday, June 2, posted messages on a fan forum saying they had been sent messages by NHS Test & Trace telling them to self-isolate because they had been close to someone who tested positive for the virus.Īll passengers had to take a PCR Covid test within three days before they flew. Some fans travelled independently, including on a Ryanair flight which has been affected. The Man City and Chelsea fans who have already tested positive for coronavirus and triggered contact tracing likely had it before they flew to Portugal because of how quickly contacts have been warned to self-isolate.įlights put on by both teams departed the UK for Porto on the day of the game, last Saturday, May 29, and came back immediately after.
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