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Mohamed Salah tests positive for coronavirus days after Liverpool's star forward partied at his brother's wedding in Egypt, leaving injury-ravaged Klopp without ANOTHER key player

Liverpool's absentee record has worsened with news that star forward Mohamed Salah has contracted coronavirus.

Salah has tested positive for Covid-19 with the Egyptian FA confirming the news on Friday.

In a short statement released on Twitter, they said: 'The medical swab conducted on the mission of our first national football team showed that our international player, Mohamed Salah, the star of Liverpool, was infected with coronavirus, after his test came positive, although he does not suffer from any symptoms.

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has tested positive for coronavirus, the Egypt FA confirms

'Meanwhile the other members of the team were negative.