Panov's theorem for weak Hopf algebras

Panov proved necessary and sufficient conditions to extend the Hopf algebra structure of an algebra $R$ to an Ore extension $R[x;\sigma,\delta]$ with $x$ being a skew-primitive element. In this paper we extend Panov's result to Ore extensions over weak Hopf algebras. As an application we study Ore extensions of connected groupoid algebras.