Rivers United football club has uncovered plans by Young Africans of Tanzania to continue to keep four players and three officials of the club in Tanzania despite testing negative to Covid-19 on Thursday September 16, 2021.
Recall, six
members of Rivers United were said to have tested positive to Covid-19 barely
two hours to kick-off in Sunday’s CAF Champions League 1st leg preliminary
round tie at the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dars es Salam.
Consequently,
the players and officials who were left behind in Tanzania had undergone
Covid-19 test twice since Monday September, 13 and have observed hesitancy with
the release of the result by the Tanzanian health authorities.
However, on
Thursday September 16, the team underwent rapid testing and all were found to
be negative. In a new twist, the Tanzanian health authorities who have refused
to allow the team leave the country insisted on the team members to undergo
RT-PCR test, of which the result has unnecessarily been delayed.
Thus, Rivers
United football club sees the insincerity on the part of the handlers of the
process as a ploy to rule the team members out of the second leg which comes up
on Sunday at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt.
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