{"id":737606,"date":"2022-01-06T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/arsenal-star-pierre-emerick-aubameyang-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T13:25:15","slug":"arsenal-star-pierre-emerick-aubameyang-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/arsenal-star-pierre-emerick-aubameyang-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/06b63023-cdbd-574f-b6bc-d65ca9f5973c&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x130&#038;resize=2470x1388.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>London \u2014 Arsenal star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has tested positive for Covid-19 Gabon coach Patrice Neveu told AFP on Thursday just days ahead of their opening Africa Cup of Nations match.<\/p>\n<p>Aubameyang, team-mate Mario Lemina and assistant coach Yala Anicet all tested positive after taking a lateral flow test and are awaiting the results from a PCR one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They underwent a PCR test and are isolating in their hotel,&#8221; said Neveu, adding they displayed no symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Aubameyang \u2014 who was stripped of the Arsenal captaincy last month \u2014 is at risk of missing Gabon&#8217;s opening Group C match against Comoros on January 10 in the biennial African showpiece tournament being hosted by Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>They go on to play further matches against Ghana and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Gabon enter the finals on the back of a 3-0 defeat by Burkina Faso in a friendly match in Dubai last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-7bd8170cf3bbebc92c3fdcd5518af1ae\">AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London \u2014 Arsenal star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has tested positive for Covid-19 Gabon coach Patrice Neveu told AFP on Thursday just days ahead of their opening Africa Cup of Nations match. Aubameyang, team-mate Mario Lemina and assistant coach Yala Anicet all tested positive after taking a lateral flow test and are awaiting the results from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}