Today, news came from the Cameroon Football Association that Four Cameroonian national team players, including Malone, Efara, Ngadejo and Bassogo, were quarantined for a positive COVID-19 test, which is the second time that Bassogo has been infected with COVID-19.
At the end of July last year, the Guangzhou Health Commission issued a message informing "new asymptomatic infected people imported from abroad", one of whom was a 24-year-old Cameroon football player. According to the official report, the confirmed patient departed from Cameroon on July 13, took flights AF982 and CZ348 to Guangzhou on the 15th, and after customs sampling, he was transferred to the centralized isolation point according to the closed-loop management procedures of the whole process, and the nucleic acid of the new crown virus was negative. During the centralized isolation period, the test is positive for the nucleic acid of the new coronavirus and the positive review by the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, that is, it is transferred to the Eighth People's Hospital of Guangzhou City for isolation and treatment. Subsequently, Henan Jianye Club confirmed that the confirmed patient was the team's foreign aid Bassogo.
This year, Bassogo joined Shenhua and played with Shenhua in the first stage of the league. In mid-August, the Chinese Super League was suspended due to the national football team's participation in the World Preliminary Round, and Bassogo was also recruited by the Cameroon national team and returned to China to play in the African region of the World Preliminary Round. After finishing the match in mid-November, Bassogo traveled to Paris and never returned to China, so he missed the second stage of the Chinese Super League.
The African Cup of Nations is scheduled to be held in Cameroon from January 9 to February 6, 2022, due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, the African Football Federation has considered postponing this African Cup of Nations, but the Cameroon Football Association has announced that the 2022 African Cup of Nations will be held as scheduled. In this year's Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon and Burkina Faso, Cape Verde and Ethiopia are in Group A.