A number of players were infected with COVID-19 before the opening match of the Africa Cup, and the Burkina Faso general was dissatisfied with the testing process

Live bar January 9 , the African Cup of Nations is about to start, but several players and coach Of kina Faso national team and coach Kammu Malo tested positive for the last covid-19 test before the game. Burkina Faso captain Bertrand Traore criticised the AFC Cup of Nations as a "scandal".

At 0:00 a.m. Beijing time on January 10, the opening match of this African Cup of Nations, Burkina Faso will face the host Cameroon. However, in the pre-match COVID-19 test, 4 or 5 Burkina Faso players and coach Camo Maroon tested positive. But the Burkina Faso national team believes that the COVID-19 test is not a pcrh test with higher accuracy and requires a second test.

Burkina Faso captain Bertrand Traore, who plays for Villa, said at a pre-match press conference on Saturday: "It's a scandal. We can't be stripped of first-team players 24 hours before the game. Authorities must review testing organizations, and we cannot accept this decision. We can re-test positive players. ”

Fleming Sanu, assistant coach of the Burkina Faso national team who replaced Kamu Malo at the press conference, began by saying: "We have 4 or 5 positive cases, mainly first-team players, and we do not intend to publish names. It's all questionable, but we're confident that the players who are about to replace them are about to be replaced. ”

Fermin-Sanu spoke of the confusion at the time of the testing, "Yesterday (Friday) morning a medical team showed up at our hotel to prepare for the test, and when we tried to find out who sent them, the African Football Federation clearly informed us that these people were not sent by them, so we refused to be tested. Another medical team arrived at 22:00 that night, they were sent by the African Football Federation, we tested and the results told us that there were 4 to 5 positive cases. I say 4 or 5 cases because they say our first player to be tested was not tested..."

(Su Erhu)