A farewell ceremony has been held in Yaounde for the Indomitable Lions as they head to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Côte d’Ivoire.
The event was organized by the Minister of Sports and Physical Education, Narcisse Mouelle Kombi, to show support to the Lions ahead of their upcoming AFCON campaign.
Other state personalities attended the ceremony, including the President’s representative, Director of Civil Cabinet of the Presidency Samuel Mvondo Ayolo who presided at the event.
The President of FECAFOOT, Samuel Eto’o, as well as the Indomitable Lions’ head coach Rigobert Song and other football legends were present.
There were cultural displays, after which the President’s representative extended a symbol of support to the Lions by handing over the Cameroon flag to Fabrice Ondoa on behalf of President Paul Biya. ‘In the name of the President of the Republic, I give you this flag of Cameroon so that you should defend the colours of Cameroon at the 34th edition of the Afcon’ Samuel Mvondo Ayolo said.
The five Indomitable Lions who were present at the event; Leonel Ateba, Wilfried Nathan, Fabrice ondoa, Njie Clinton and Faris Moumbagna are expected to take off for Saudi Arabia on December 30th while the others will join them there.
Source: Cameroon News Agency
It is necessary to excercise caution against the spread of seasonal viruses, mainly the JN.1 Covid strain which the World Health Organisation called a ‘variant of interest,, said Dr. Riadh Daghfous, the Director of the National Pharmacovigilance Centre and member of the Scientific Committee to fight the coronavirus.
” The new variant was not detected in Tunisia so far,” Daghfous told TAP. Many cases had been reported across the world since last summer.
There is need to monitor this latest subvariant as it is spreading quickly, Daghfous said, with such symptoms as fever, headache, fatigue, asthenia and cough.
The pandemic is not over yet and it is imperative to comply with preventive measures, particularly at this end-of-year period,
Parents are urged to abide by preventive measures to protct babies under two years of age with bronchiolitis which has largely spread recently in Tunisia with several of hospitalisations nd intensive care admissions reported.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse – English