Covid outbreak at Saints
CHAMPIONS St Martin’s have come first again.
They are the first domestic senior club to be hit by Covid infections, with four positive cases having forced the club to cancel training earlier this week.
Previously, Rovers had been weakened at the hands of contact-tracers ahead of their Rawlinson Cup final, but the Blanche Pierre Lane outbreak is more serious.
That said, coach Leon Meakin reports that none of the four infected are particularly ill and the club hope they are through the worst.
One of the four has since recovered and a couple are still isolating, said Meakin, adding: ‘We hope those will be out and about today [Thursday] or tomorrow.’
The last positive case among the squad was last Saturday, but the club considered it wise to postpone Tuesday training ‘until everyone had had the chance to do their lateral flow tests and a couple of close contacts had gone into isolation’.
Meakin said that of the four confirmed cases, three of them had been jabbed twice, the other once.
‘I believe they have only had mild symptoms.’
One man who has not been affected is Guernsey FC skipper Jamie Dodd, who has re-signed for the 2020-21 league champions and has trained with the club in the last couple of weeks.
Dodd will be hoping for a return to GFC action soon enough, but in the meantime can help out his old club, as he did so successfully at the tail-end of last season.
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