The player was part of a controversy at the club for refusing to be vaccinated, as was Joshua Kimmich, who according to local press would also be positive.
Bayern Munich announced this Wednesday the positive COVID-19 by Eric Choupo-Moting, while the local press reported same result of Joshua Kimmich, in the middle of the controversy surrounding these players for weeks for refusing to be vaccinated.
On the day of return to Germany, after winning 2-1 at Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday night, Bayern came across the news of Choupo-Moting, who was already isolated by a contact with another person who tested positive, but had not confirmed the information from the newspaper image relative to Kimmich.
The player thus missed last weekend’s league match against Augsburg and also the Champions League match against Dynamo Kiev, after being out of the squad for the last three national team matches.
The Bayern Munich, meanwhile, stopped paying his salary on the days when he could not play due to quarantine, according to the current German regulation for the unvaccinated.
Sunday Picture on sunday also stated that four other Bayern players were in the same situationAlthough according to media reports it seems that some of them have decided to get vaccinated in the meantime.
Kimmich is the only one who has publicly admitted not having been vaccinatedBut the same is believed to be true of Jamal Musiala, Serge Gnabry, and Eric-Maxim Choupo Moting.
Kimmich’s arguments for not getting vaccinated have to do with personal doubts regarding existing vaccines and fear of long-term side effects.
The Kimmich case has unleashed a strong commotion in Germany. The German authorities have been urging the unvaccinated to be immunized, given the constant increase in cases of coronavirus.
Germany accumulates these weeks one peak after another of infections, with a weekly incidence of over 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The rate of vaccinated with the complete schedule is over 70% of the population. (D)
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