{"id":93550,"date":"2021-07-01T01:56:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T01:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=93550"},"modified":"2021-07-01T02:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T02:56:55","slug":"cowboys-released-from-isolation-after-covid-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=93550","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys released from isolation after COVID scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/north-queensland-cowboys\" title=\"Cowboys\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cowboys<\/a> have been cleared to resume training after a COVID-19 scare swept through the club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2021-north-queensland-cowboys-todd-payten-dean-young-covid-19\/924fa5c4-18f9-4478-a9dd-9b9d24d46811\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Coach Todd Payten is still in isolation\">Coach Todd Payten is still in isolation<\/a> and will remain there for 14 days after he was deemed a close contact to a positive COVID case but the players have been released from isolation after returning negative test results.<\/p>\n<p>They will play under the direction of senior assistant coach Dean Young, who has stepped up to deputise for Payten while he&#x27;s in isolation.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"cc5d6dcb-462e-4e9c-a9ad-551e93821cb5\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/cc5d6dcb-462e-4e9c-a9ad-551e93821cb5\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The negative test results for the players ensured the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/newcastle-knights-v-north-queensland-cowboys-nrl-telstra-premiership-2021\/321166\" title=\"Cowboys&#x27; clash with the Knights\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cowboys&#x27; clash with the Knights<\/a> will go ahead as scheduled on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Todd&#x27;s in good spirits,&quot; Cowboys CEO Jeff Reibel said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I spoke to him before I came on (a media conference via Zoom) and he&#x27;s very keen to ensure that the team has very little disruption as we go into Saturday.&quot;<\/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<p><img data-video-id=\"6261503567001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/06\/366900\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"QLDER: Do the Maroons lack leadership?\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckqhrxymo00090grx4rc5b7fg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Cowboys have been cleared to resume training after a COVID-19 scare swept through the club. Coach Todd Payten is still in isolation and will <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=93550\" title=\"Cowboys released from isolation after COVID scare\">[&#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\/93550"}],"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=93550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93552,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93550\/revisions\/93552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}