The information fell this Wednesday afternoon via a short press release from the club.
And that's bad news for Bayern Munich and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting.
Absent during the trip to Kiev on Tuesday evening on the fifth day of the Champions League (2-1 victory for the Bavarians), the striker tested positive for Covid-19.
On Sunday, Bayern announced that they had placed four players not vaccinated against Covid-19 in quarantine - Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala, Éric-Maxim Choupo-Moting and Michael Cuisance - after they were "in contact with a person from the 'entourage of FC Bayern team tested positive for coronavirus ”.
Joshua Kimmich had been put in isolation on Friday.
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting ist positiv auf das Coronavirus getestet worden.
- FC Bayern München (@FCBayern) November 24, 2021
According to Bayern, the former PSG striker "is doing well in these circumstances".
It's a hell of a stop for “Choupo” who had already scored 3 goals in 9 Bundesliga appearances this season.
For 26-year-old Kimmich, it was the second solitary confinement this month.
The case of the German international, who has chosen not to be vaccinated for “personal reasons”, is provoking a lively debate in Germany, faced with a virulent new wave of the Covid-19 epidemic.
A surge of Covid cases in Germany
According to Bild, Bayern also counts Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala and Michael Cuisance among their other players who have not yet received any dose of the vaccine.
But the press reports that the first two have declared themselves ready to take the plunge.
The Bavarian club had to crack down and has already decided to reduce the salaries of players not vaccinated against Covid-19.
During the day, the German Football League also announced that it had rejected a call to stop the Bundesliga season for several weeks.
A request issued by Helge Leonhardt, president of Erzgebirge Aue (German D2), who wanted to stop the first two divisions until December.
Germany is facing a new surge of Covid cases with infection rates reaching record levels, as the percentage of people vaccinated is below 70%.
The German regional states of Bavaria and Saxony, among the most affected by the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic, announced on Friday the cancellation of all Christmas markets, in addition to other restrictions.
