The Warriors will be without star duo Euan Aitken and Josh Curran for the next two weeks after the pair were passengers on a flight with a Covid-19 positive flight attendant.
The two players were returning to the Warriors' base on the Central Coast after spending time during the bye
week on the Gold Coast, and will now have to isolate for 14 days – regardless of their own test results.
"They flew back on a flight last night from the Gold Coast to Sydney with an air hostess who has tested positive so they've had to now go into quarantine for two weeks regardless of their test results – they got tested today – so that's where we're at with them," Warriors chief executive Cameron George confirmed to the Herald.
"Poor old Euan, he was supposed to be on a flight earlier in the day but that got cancelled so he got onto this flight, the poor bugger. So, they're stuck in their rooms in isolation for 14 days."
The club allowed players and staff to spend time away from the team base during the bye week, affording them some time to enjoy the break. A number of players and staff returned to New Zealand during that time, with about a dozen arriving back over the Tasman yesterday.
