South African first-class cricketer Solo Nqweni has been tested positive for the novel coronavirus. According to reports, Nqweni has been suffering from other health issues such as Guillan-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and has got tuberculosis (TB). The news about his illness was revealed by the cricketr himself on social media. Nqweni is the third cricketer known to have contracted the deadly disease after Pakistan's Zafar Sarfraz and Scotland’s Majid Haq.
Former Scotland cricketer of Pakistani descent Majid Haq had earlier announced that he has tested positive for novel coronavirus. The former off-spinner took to Twitter to share the news with his friends and followers on March 20. 50-year-old former Pakistan first-class cricketer Zafar Sarfraz who had tested positive for coronavirus died last month at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
