Nigeria's Francisca Ordega and Zambia's Barbra Banda were absent as their Chinese Women's Super League club resumed training for the first time this week.
The African pair were part of Shanghai's preseason tour in Lisbon, Portugal where they spend almost a month before departing back to their various bases during the coronavirus break in March.
Ordega joined the CWSL outfit in 2019, and was in superb form, scoring seven goals to help Shanghai to finish as runners-up last season.
The 2018 African Women’s Player of the Year nominee has been at her home country in Benue state since the Covid-19 outbreak.