Coronavirus: Aston Villa goalkeeper Pepe Reina believes he has contracted Covid-19 after displaying symptoms
Spaniard said ‘everything pointed’ to him having ‘gone through the bug’
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Your support makes all the difference.Aston Villa goalkeeper Pepe Reina believes he has contracted coronavirus after displaying symptoms of the disease last week.
The Spaniard has not undergone testing but admitted that he had “gone through the bug” and had already been self-isolating prior to Monday’s lockdown measures being introduced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“Last week it was my turn to go through the bug,’ the former Liverpool player told radio station Cope. “It has been a different week, of taking precautions not to infect the people who live with me.
“Here tests are not conducted unless you are [in a] very bad [state]. Speaking to the doctors, the symptoms I had were of it, without official confirmation of it but everything pointed to it.
“We are very privileged people. We have a big house, with a garden. I think of the people who live in a 70m squared apartment with two children and for me they are people who are showing a lot of strength.”
Meanwhile, both Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta and Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi have reassured supporters that they have made a full recovery after suffering from the virus.
“I am very well now,” Arteta told Spanish TV channel La Sexta. “I feel that I have recovered.”
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