Luton were expecting to find out this morning if striker James Collins has tested positive for Coronavirus, but the club is still waiting for the results from a priority test.
The top scorer missed Saturday’s 2-0 Championship defeat to Stoke and it was revealed afterwards that he’d been tested and was self-isolating.
Asked the current situation, 48 hours after the match, manager Nathan Jones said: “Ironically, we are waiting for the results on a priority test, so it’s very strange at the minute. We’re just waiting for the labs to come back to us. We had a priority test for first thing this morning but they haven’t come back yet. It’s very strange.”
Town have their own antibody test to assess whether players have symptoms, so Jones believes the rest of his squad have a clean bill of health, after they were all tested on Saturday.
Jones said: “It’s a machine that guides us into testing them to gold standard. The gold standard, if you want pure clarification, has to be the one that we use. You have to do a swab test, we have a machine that can tell if people are having kind of symptoms, so we’ve done that, which has led us to a certain level where we’ve needed to go and get a swab test and we’re just waiting on the priority results.
“(It’s) a gold standard one, I wouldn’t say it’s regular as it’s the one that the Premier League use and the one the EFL trust and what the EFL, if they say you’re positive then you get pulled from the game, or training, or isolation or whatever it is, so it’s the gold standard one.”
