Prague party results in 68 new coronavirus infections, including footballers from country’s leading teams

Hygienists have detected 68 new COVID-19 cases as a result of a party that took place in a Prague nightclub on Saturday, July 11. Among those who tested positive are also football players, the director of Prague’s hygienist office, Zdeňka Jágrová, told Czech Television on Wednesday. She said the party resulted in 15 of the 17 attendees contracting the coronavirus. These went on to infect 53 other people, tests have shown.

Among those infected were football players from the reserve teams of Sparta Prague, Dukla Prague and Bohemians 1905. The later team has decided to cancel their summer preparations for next season. However, none of the three sides’ A-team players have been infected, the Czech News Agency reports.

More than 120 people connected to the outbreak have since been put into quarantine, according to news site Seznam.cz.