Coca joins Nani and Salah on the Egyptian national team's "Corona casualty list"

The medical apparatus of the first Egyptian football team announced today that its player, Ahmed Hassan Kouka, was infected with the Corona virus, to join his colleagues Mohamed Salah and Mohamed Al-Nani.

And the medical device headed by Dr. Mohamed Abu Al-Ela stated that three results of medical swabs to detect the Corona virus that the players of the Egyptian team mission returning from Togo underwent were positive.

The results showed that Koca, the Greek Olympiakos striker, the media coordinator for the national team, Shadi Al-Gilani, and Mohamed Abdo, the team's masseur, were injured.

And the Pharaohs' technical staff announced two days ago that Arsenal midfielder Mohamed Al-Nani had been infected with the new Corona virus, after announcing the infection of English Liverpool star Mohamed Salah last week.

Salah missed the two matches against Togo in the third and fourth rounds of the 2021 African Nations Cup qualifiers postponed to 2022 due to the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, while Al Nini was absent in the fourth round only.

The Egyptian team went a long way in qualifying for the finals by striking the net of its Togolese host 3-1 on Tuesday, and returned to the top of Group G with eight points, on goal difference from the second Comoros, in front of Kenya, the third with three points, and Togo last with one point.

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