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"I ran out of air and there was nothing I could do," said Juventus striker Paulo Dybala, affected by the coronavirus, who added that he now feels "much better".

"I feel good, much better. After the strong symptoms I had a few days ago, I feel much better, without symptoms," the Argentinian told JTV, the club's TV channel.

"I can move better, so I think I'll try to work out again. Because when I tried these last few days, I felt that I was weakening too quickly. I was running out of air and I couldn't do anything to do, "added Dybala, whose Juventus announced the positive test on March 21.

"After five minutes, I felt very tired, I felt that my body was very heavy. The muscles were painful and I had to stop," he added.

Dybala said his Argentinian partner Oriana Sabatini, also ill, was also "much better".

The Argentinian is one of the three Juventus players to have caught the coronavirus with Frenchman Blaise Matuidi and Italian Daniele Rugani.

The disease, which affected more than 85,000 people in Italy, left 9,134 people dead on the Peninsula.

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