First Junior Zambia is tested negative for the coronavirus, then there is a positive result – and the 23-year-old had to go to the intensive care unit. His advisor has now given an update on the state of the professional.
Junior Zambia from French ex-master HSC Montpellier is no longer in an artificial coma. The official Ligue 1 website quotes Zambia’s advisor Frederic Guerra. Accordingly, the 23-year-old, who has been infected with the corona virus, is breathing again on his own. “It will be a long recovery process, but the most important thing is that he is no longer in a coma,” said Guerra.
Zambia was hospitalized on Tuesday after breathing problems and initially tested negative for Covid-19 – a second test on Friday was positive. The Frenchman was then put into an artificial coma in the intensive care unit.
Zambia’s club had only announced on its homepage on Thursday that an unnamed player had been hospitalized “after digestive and breathing difficulties”.
First positive tested player in March
In Ligue 1 the ball should roll again from mid-June. As the league association LFP announced on Friday evening, this desired date is currently firmly in sight. The prerequisite for this, however, is that the authorities ease the current national restrictions somewhat in the coming days.
According to this, the players should return to their clubs after the end of the lockdown on May 11 and be completely medically checked. French football has been suspended since March 8, and the teams still have ten or eleven games to play. The South Korean Hyun-Jun Suk, who plays for the French second division club ES Troyes, was the first professional footballer in France to test positive for the corona virus in March.
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