MADRID, 18 Mar (Reuters) - La Liga side Real Valladolid have formally rejected the Spanish league’s offer of coronavirus test kits for their players on ethical and medical grounds, the club said on Wednesday.
“La Liga offered them to us , but we have not taken them for medical and social reasons,” club spokesman David Espinar said in a statement.
Spain is Europe’s second-most affected country by the virus after Italy, with 558 confirmed deaths and almost 14,000 cases by Wednesday afternoon, with the country in lockdown.
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