Paris St-Germain's Neymar and Leandro Paredes leave the team hotel in Lisbon on the way to training
Paris St-Germain's Neymar and Leandro Paredes. Image Credit: AFP

Paris: Paris Saint-Germain on Thursday announced “three new positive cases” of COVID-19 in their squad, taking the total number of players to have contracted the virus to six.

“The latest Sars CoV2 tests carried out on the Paris Saint-Germain playing staff have confirmed that there are three new positive cases,” the French champions said in a tweet.

Neymar was one of those revealed to have tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.