Sunday's Guinness Six Nations game between France and Scotland is in doubt after five more positive cases of Covid-19 were detected in the French rugby squad.
The news was announced via official France Rugby social media this morning.
📣 Communiqué suite à l'évolution de la situation sanitaire du #XVdeFrance 👇
— France Rugby (@FranceRugby) February 22, 2021
The latest diagnoses bring to fourteen the number of positive cases among players and management in the last week.
Captain Charles Ollivon - who was among the try scorers in Les Bleus' win against Ireland - and Man of the Match in Dublin Brice Dulin are among the latest group of five to test positive.
In total, nine of the twenty-three players who lined out versus Ireland have since contracted coronavirus.