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"He's [Paterson] isolating. I think the majority of the squad have had it over this period but only one with symptoms. Pato's not that one," said the head coach.
"We're being asked to test every day. It's going to come up at some point.
"The fortunate thing for us is that even the one player who had symptoms, they were very mild. The rest have had no symptoms at all.
"Their biggest frustration is that they've felt great at home and they're having to sit at home for 10 days and then come back in, so we have to be a bit patient with them, we can't go straight into it after 10 days off, even though they felt well.
"So there's protocols to follow to avoid injury, so that is what it is, and hopefully we're over the back of it now and we can move on."
"We're being asked to test every day. It's going to come up at some point.
"The fortunate thing for us is that even the one player who had symptoms, they were very mild. The rest have had no symptoms at all.
"Their biggest frustration is that they've felt great at home and they're having to sit at home for 10 days and then come back in, so we have to be a bit patient with them, we can't go straight into it after 10 days off, even though they felt well.
"So there's protocols to follow to avoid injury, so that is what it is, and hopefully we're over the back of it now and we can move on."