The Egyptian team will not be able to return to their country for 14 days.

Shafiq Jaraya, vice president of the North African Football Confederation Medical Committee, confirmed that the medical committee conducts a medical examination 48 hours before any match and delivers the results to the teams at least two hours before the match starts.

“After the results of the medical swabs, the strength of the Egyptian team has become ineligible to compete in the Tunisia match,” Jaraya said in televised statements to Ontime Sports.

He added that “the Egyptian team was informed of 16 positive cases of the Corona virus in their ranks at seven in the morning on the day of the confrontation with Tunisia.”

He continued: “The doctor from the African Football Confederation (CAF) said to monitor the match that the Egyptian team has two cases of Corona and the remaining number is illegal.”

He indicated that there was a player from the Egyptian national team who was infected with Corona and had mixed with everyone on the field.

“The Egyptian team will not be able to return to their country until after being quarantined in Tunisia for a period of 14 days,” concluded the vice president of the CAF medical committee.

Earlier, Walid Maher, media coordinator for the Egyptian youth team, said that the national team’s match against Tunisia was canceled by the North African Federation’s medical committee.

The Egyptian team was scheduled to face Tunisia on Friday for the second round of qualifying matches for the 2021 African Nations Championship in Mauritania.

The committee overseeing the African Championship refused to hold a match of the Egyptian youth team against its Tunisian counterpart, so the pharaohs lost the second match.

The quarry was counted as the loser to Libya in the first game, due to its inability to pick up 15 players who are exempt from the Corona virus, before the same happened against Tunisia, and there are two clashes against Morocco and Algeria.