Real Madrid footballers quarantined after basketball player gets coronavirus
By Reuters
12 March 2020 |
3:29 pm
Real Madrid have sent all of the members of their soccer and basketball teams home into quarantine after one of the sports club's basketball players tested positive for the coronavirus, the Spanish club said in a statement on Thursday.
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