Despite recording seven positive cases of covid-19 from the tests carried out on the players, the Black Princesses and the Black Maidens will proceed with their camping as scheduled, the FA has confirmed.
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) is confident of keeping the players, technical staff and all other essential service providers under safety conditions while in camp, and remains calm after seven players from the two national females teams camps tested positive for the coronavirus disease.
The Black Princesses and the Black Maidens began camping in Cape Coast last Friday to begin preparations for the 2020 FIFA World Cup qualifies. Meanwhile, the Confederations of African Football (CAF) has announced it has postponed the qualifiers for the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifiers, a reason why the Princesses have moved to camp to prepare. The issue of covid-19 cases having hit the two teams camps and the later postponement of the 2020 U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifiers has raised concerns whether the two teams should be given break from camp for the players to go home, but the FA Communications Director, Henry Asante Twum, speaking to Asempa FM, insists camping will continue as the situation is firmly under control.
“It will be inappropriate to go through all these process and discover that some of the players have the virus and then decide to confine those who tested positive, then you tell everyone to go home because the qualifiers have been postponed. If you give it a thought, in a way, if you take that decision it will go against you, so the best thing to do now is to keep them at one place, continue to work on them, conduct your tests from time to time till a new date (for the qualifiers) will be given. So for now they will continue to be in camp”, Henry Asante told Asempa FM.
The GFA organised a covid-19 test on all the players of the Maidens and Princesses upon arrival in camp, and the results show four (4) players from the Black Princesses camp and three (3) from the Black Maidens camp have the virus. The victims have since been sent to an isolation centre in the central region to undergo the mandatory 14-day quarantine while the medical experts attend to them.
The new date for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifiers is yet to be released by CAF.
