Super Eagles striker, Paul Onuachu,
has contracted the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19), Vanguard has reported.
It was gathered that the player
tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, while the result of his mates,
Stephen Odey and Cyril Dessers at Belgian club Genk, came out negative.
“In the run-up to the first
exhibition game of the season, the entire Genk group was tested yesterday
(Tuesday),” a report on Belgian website hln.be
stated, adding that: “Everyone tested negative except Onuachu.”
The 26-year-old Nigeria
international left Belgium for Nigeria on May 27, alongside fellow Eagles
strikers Victor Osimhen and Imoh Ezekiel.
He returned to his club on June 28
after he was stranded for a week in Lagos due to travel restrictions caused by
the coronavirus pandemic.
Meanwhile, the Super Eagles striker
becomes the second Nigerian footballer to contract Coronavirus after Akpan
Udoh, the first footballer to be infected, in February 2020.
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