Thirteen players and staff from a Lisbon premier league football team have tested positive for the Omicron variant of coronavirus, Portuguese health officials said.The Belenenses SAD team members had already been in confinement for days after testing positive for the virus last week. Thibang 'Cafu' Phete, the team’s defender, had recently traveled to South Africa. Graca Freitas, head of Portugal’s health services, said their cases were all “evolving favorably” and the majority of those infected, if not everyone, had already been vaccinated.

Thirteen players and staff from a Lisbon premier league football team have tested positive for the Omicron variant of coronavirus, Portuguese health officials said.The Belenenses SAD team members had already been in confinement for days after testing positive for the virus last week. Thibang 'Cafu' Phete, the team’s defender, had recently traveled to South Africa. Graca Freitas, head of Portugal’s health services, said their cases were all “evolving favorably” and the majority of those infected, if not everyone, had already been vaccinated.