Football star Salah tests positive for coronavirus

Egyptian soccer star and Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Egyptian soccer association said on Twitter on Friday, on the eve of the game against Togo.

Salah, who has so far shown no symptoms of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, was immediately isolated in his hotel room, Egypt’s national team said.

The Premier League Golden Boot recipient had recently arrived in his home country to join the national soccer team, the country’s beloved Pharaohs, in the two upcoming games of the latest round of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

Egypt is set to face Togo in Cairo on Saturday, and in Togo’s capital, Lome, on Tuesday.