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Real Madrid footballers quarantined after basketball player gets Covid-19

La Liga Santander - Real Madrid v Barcelona - Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - March 1, 2020, Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos in action with Barcelona's Antoine Griezmann. [REUTERS/Juan Medina]

Real Madrid has sent all of the members of its soccer and basketball teams home into quarantine after one of the sports club's basketball players tested positive for the new coronavirus, the Spanish club said in a statement on Thursday.

"Real Madrid CF announces that a player from our basketball team has tested positive after undergoing tests for coronavirus COVID-19," said the statement on the club's official website.

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