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CAF dismisses AFCON postponement rumors over the discovery of Omicron variant

Confederation of African Football (CAF) has dismissed rumors that the 2022 AFCON could be postponed or moved from Cameroon in the wake of the recent discovery of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19.

The biggest football competition on the African scene which has already suffered postponement to 2022 due to the global pandemic, is billed to kick off in Cameroon on January 9, 2022.

The new variant of the COVID-19 contagion has sparked rumors that the competition could be moved after the introduction of travel restriction on some African nations by the UK and Canada.

However, CAF’s director of communications, Alex Siewe, in a chat with BBC Africa, revealed that his organization nor the Cameroon leaders have discussed such events.

“We can’t keep spending time dealing with rumours,”

“We did not receive any other message or information from our leaders- nothing such as changing of dates or countries. We did not discuss such during all our last meetings.” He told BBC Sport Africa.

This article was updated 1 year ago

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