Panama national team announces new cases of COVID-19 after friendly against Peru

This Tuesday, January 18, the Panamanian Football Federation announced, through a statement, that new positive cases of COVID-19 were reported in its squad that traveled to Lima to play an international friendly with the Peruvian team. It is about the coach and a player who was a starter at the National Stadium.

“The Panamanian Football Federation informs that the DT of the men’s senior team, Thomas Christiansen, has tested positive for COVID-19 after the last test carried out on the delegation that returned from Peru, this Monday, January 17. The coach has mild symptoms and is complying with the proper isolation “, it reads in the first lines of the document.

“Dr. Paulo Barrera, president of the Panamanian Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology and adviser to FEPAFUT on the issue of the current pandemic, commented that “the MINSA has been duly informed of the positive case of coach Christiansen, who must comply with his respective isolation. We, as we do with all the members of FEPAFUT, are monitoring the day to day of the DT. Christiansen would have no problem traveling to San José for the January 27 match against Costa Rica.”, they add.

“On the other hand, Harold Cummings also tested positive on Monday. The defender is asymptomatic and is performing his respective isolation “, sentences the Panamanian Football Federation in its statement.

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