Bundesliga 2 side FC Erzgebirge Aue quarantined as staff tests positive for coronavirus 10 days before season resumes

A SECOND-TIER German side is in quarantine after staff tested positive for coronavirus.

Bundesliga 2 outfit FC Erzgebirge Aue have sent all players and staff home after one person was found to have Covid-19 during a second round of tests.

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Bundesliga 2 side FC Erzgebirge Aue are in quarantine after a member of staff tested positive for coronavirus

That’s despite the Bundesliga looking set to return later this month.

German football has been on hold since March 11.

But top-flight matches look set to resume from May 15, just ten days away.

Germany is looking to ease lockdown measures after acting quickly two months ago.

And Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to announce the reopening of schools and shops on Wednesday.

Football is also set to get the go-ahead for closed-door games, with strict measures to prevent players from getting infected.

Teams have resumed training already with squads working in small groups.

However, ten players across the top two divisions have recently tested positive.

Cologne registered three cases while Stuttgart had one “inconclusive result” – while two positive tests were returned by Borussia Monchengladbach.

Yet the Bundesliga still looks set to resume later this month despite seeing France’s Ligue 1 and the Netherlands’ Eredivisie campaigns scrapped.

It’s reckoned only 300 people will be allowed in stadiums at any one time, including police, journalists, ball boys, groundsmen and security.

Players will be checked before going inside while team buses will be disinfected.

There will be separate changing rooms for starters and subs, who may have to sit in the stands.

And all players will move through the tunnel alone with no line ups, hand shakes or photos.

Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk