Real Madrid footballers quarantined after basketball player gets coronavirus

MADRID (Reuters) - 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.

The announcement led to all matches in Spain's top two divisions being postponed for at least two weeks and will almost certainly lead to Real's Champions League last-16 second leg at Manchester City next Tuesday being postponed too.

Thursday's Europa League matches between Sevilla and AS Roma and Inter Milan and Getafe have already been postponed.

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