The South African Football Association released the following statement on Wednesday afternoon
After the fourth round of testing in the Bafana Bafana camp on Tuesday, it was not a clean bill of health for the national South African team departing for Zimbabwe, to participate in the Fifa 2022 World Cup qualifier against Zimbabwe in Harare on Friday.
While every precaution was taken to ensure the safety of the team in the ‘bio bubble’ bad news struck on Wednesday morning.
Thibang Phete, who plays for Portuguese club Belenenses SAD, was missing from training, after his PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test came back positive for Covid-19, and was isolated immediately.