Tour de France stage winner Miguel Angel Lopez will not join Movistar's training camp in Almeria this week after testing positive for COVID-19, the team announced Tuesday.

According to a brief statement, the team said Lopez was informed on Monday that he had been in contact with another COVID-19 positive and tested positive. He had tested negative before traveling to Europe from his home in Colombia.

Lopez won the mountain stage to the Col de la Rose in September at the 2020 Tour de France, when a coronavirus outbreak forced organizers to change the race from its usual July start, and rose to third place overall. In the time trial to La Planche des Belle Filles, he fell to sixth place behind overall winner Tadey Pogachar (UAE Team Emirates).

After the Tour de France, Astana manager Alexandre Vinokurov admitted that Lopez had left the team and that the Giro d'Italia, rescheduled for October, would be his last race with Astana.

Lopez crashed in the individual time trial of the first stage of the Giro d'Italia after hitting a bump in the road surface. He suffered an injury near the iliac artery and required surgery, but escaped further serious injury. It was his second crash in the shortened season after crashing on a wet and slippery descent on the opening stage of the Tour de France in Nice, taking him off the bike for 10 weeks.

The move to the Movistar team was announced in November, and by December Lopez was back in training for the Almeria camp, with the 2021 season set to begin in March.

The team has not stated whether Lopez was affected by the coronavirus. Coronaviruses can cause severe illness, although more than half of those infected do not show symptoms; COVID-19 has killed nearly 2 million people worldwide since its emergence in China a year ago.