The twenty-three year-old
defensive midfielder is the first player in Ligue 1, the top division in
France, to be diagnosed with the deadly virus.
Montpellier and French
football star, Junior Sambia has been placed into an ‘artificial coma due to
the severity of his symptoms’ after he tested positive for Coronavirus.
Sambia’s agent revealed
that his symptoms became so severe that after he changed hospital, staff made
the decision to put him into a coma.
‘His condition is stable
this Friday. It has not deteriorated, nor improved,’ his agent Frederic Guerra
told Le Parisien.
‘It is tough. He really
respected confinement. He did everything well. He must have contracted the
virus while shopping.
‘He suffered three days of
severe diarrhoea – like gastroenteritis. Then, on Tuesday morning, he went to
the hospital. I reached him when he was on an IV.
‘He had just received the
COVID-19 test result. This one was negative. He was due to leave on Wednesday,
then his condition worsened with his lungs.
‘It grew more complicated
in transit. He went back to the same hospital, then he changed hospitals twice
before being placed in an artificial coma.’
Montpellier had earlier
released a statement announcing that one of their players had been hospitalised
due to ‘digestive and respiratory problems’ but the club did not make any link
to the Coronavirus.
Sambia is a defensive
midfielder for Montpellier and has made 22 appearances in all competitions for
the club this season, netting one goal before the French league was suspended
due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
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