Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah tests positive for Covid-19

Mohamed Salah (Getty Images)

Liverpool forward Mohamed salah has tested positive for Covid-19 while on international service with Egypt without showing any symptoms, the Egyptian Football Association announced on Friday.

The national team medical swabs “showed that our international player, Liverpool star Mohamed Salah, was infected with the coronavirus,” he said in a tweet, adding that he was “not suffering from any symptoms.”

The announcement comes as Egypt prepares to face Togo at home on Saturday in an African Cup of Nations qualifier.

The tweet said that other members of the Egyptian national team tested negative.

Salah was observing agreed medical protocols in consultations between doctors in Egypt and Liverpool, a hotspot for the coronavirus, and isolated himself in a hotel room in Cairo.

The two-time African Footballer of the Year will undergo further testing in the coming hours, the federation said.

Salah has already scored eight Premier League goals for Liverpool this season.

If he’s offside, it would be a heavy blow to Premier League champions Liverpool, who were deprived of Senegalese international striker Sadio Mane earlier in the season when he also tested positive for coronavirus, although he has since returned to the team.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has already lost defender Joe Gomez to a knee tendon injury suffered in England this week.

The club says Gomez is likely to be out for months.

And the Reds are counting the cost of being deprived of key central defender Virgil van Dijk for what is expected to be most of the season after he tore his knee ligaments in a clash with Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. last month.