{"id":158000,"date":"2021-11-10T05:17:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T06:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=158000"},"modified":"2021-11-10T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T08:00:28","slug":"afl-rocked-by-second-coronavirus-case-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=158000","title":{"rendered":"AFL rocked by second coronavirus case in a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL has been rocked by a second positive COVID-19 case in the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/hawthorn-hawks-player-finn-maginness-covid-19-positive-test\/775594bf-2b18-42fb-b867-da107b8c444d\" title=\"Hawthorn revealed young player Finn Maginness had tested positive\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hawthorn revealed young player Finn Maginness had tested positive<\/a>, Carlton announced one of its AFLW players had returned a positive test.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The\u00a0fully vaccinated individual conducted a rapid antigen test on arrival outside the club on Tuesday afternoon, which subsequently returned\u00a0a positive result,&quot; the Blues said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/carlton-player-hesitant-over-covid-vaccine-could-have-contract-torn-up\/18975d6e-65fc-4fb7-adca-67f975ffc50c\" target=\"\" title=\"Carlton star facing the axe over anti-vax stance\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Carlton star facing the axe over anti-vax stance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The individual then immediately undertook a PCR COVI test outside the club, before returning home to isolate as soon as the test was completed. The person did not enter IKON Park at any stage.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The PCR test returned a positive result on Wednesday, with the individual now required to self-isolate for 14 days.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"1c7b9a3f-d106-41e6-848a-07fe7966ad7e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1c7b9a3f-d106-41e6-848a-07fe7966ad7e\" alt=\"Carlton Blues AFLW training.\" data-width=\"2324\" data-height=\"1307\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the player&#x27;s Carlton teammates was identified as a close contact, but they returned a negative test. They will still isolate for seven days.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes on the same day was <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/carlton-player-hesitant-over-covid-vaccine-could-have-contract-torn-up\/18975d6e-65fc-4fb7-adca-67f975ffc50c\" title=\"revealed Carlton is dealing with an anti-vax AFL player\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed Carlton is dealing with an anti-vax AFL player<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The AFL has mandated all players and staff be fully vaccinated as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The AFL has been rocked by a second positive COVID-19 case in the same day. Hours after Hawthorn revealed young player Finn Maginness had tested <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=158000\" title=\"AFL rocked by second coronavirus case in a day\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158002,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158000\/revisions\/158002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}