Super Eagles players and all the officials in camp in Austria have tested negative for COVID-19 ahead of their match against Algeria tonight.
This development was made public in a tweet via the official Twitter handle of the Nigeria Football Federation.
The tweet reads;
News just in: All @NGSuperEagles players and officials test negative to COVID 19 ahead of the game against Algeria tonight. #SoarSuperEagles #Team9jaStrong
News just in: All @NGSuperEagles players and officials test negative to COVID 19 ahead of the game against Algeria tonight. #SoarSuperEagles #Team9jaStrong
— The NFF 🇳🇬 (@thenff) October 9, 2020
The results of the players and staffs further debunk the a report that circulated a few hours ago about four players in the camp of the Super Eagles testing positive in camp.
This was due to a misinterpretation of what coach Gernot Rohr said during the Press Conference yesterday.
Right said four Super Eagles players tested during the lockdown but they recovered fully before coming to camp.
News Alert.
Please discountenance any reports that some of our players tested positive to COVID 19 ahead of tomorrow's friendly game against Algeria.
It is a blatant falsehood. #SoarSuperEagles #Team9jaStrong— The NFF 🇳🇬 (@thenff) October 8, 2020
The writer of the story, who was not part of the press conference earlier today, totally misrepresented what Coach Rohr said that since the outbreak of the pandemic, four of our players had tested positive, #SoarSuperEagles #Team9jaStrong
— The NFF 🇳🇬 (@thenff) October 8, 2020
but were all now fully recovered from the virus and back in action.
The results of the COVID 19 tests carried out on the Super Eagles ahead of tomorrow's game are still being awaited. #SoarSuperEagles #Team9jaStrong— The NFF 🇳🇬 (@thenff) October 8, 2020