After their recovery and time spent in quarantine Ashfaq and Shamin have returned to be with their football team .

In Dubai where matches are commencing between teams including Maldives, these two players had tested positive for Covid-19 from the test they did upon arrival to Dubai. They had gone into quarantine on 29th of this month and stayed that way for 10 days up until now. 

For now these two players are following all the protocols and are under quarantine out of touch from the rest of the team. Even though the test taken after their quarantine was over they still have to follow the protocol and be quarantined for a period of time that it states for. 

After these two join up with the team for playing they will be able and permitted to play in the up coming match against china.

Maldives will be playing for the qualification against china next Friday. And will be competing with Philippines on 15th of this month. This is a great strength gained for the players of Maldives’s team. As well as courage and inspiration for the coaching team. 

At the beginning when the qualifications matches were supposed to be held in China, Ashfaq tested positive from the test taken before setting off to go to the country on 29th of last month. And with that besides him Shamin also tested positive and both these players were isolated separately. In the end the matches were finalized to play in Dubai. 

That is because China has prohibited the entry for now to their country for 3 countries including Maldives. While being quarantined in Hotel Jen in Male’ city he was given a special permission to be separated from the team. However, after testing negative to the tested taking upon the protocol he was then reunited with his team to fly to Dubai.