Paris (AFP)

Sports columnist Pierre Ménès announced Monday that he was leaving hospital after contracting the coronavirus, which "completely exhausted him".

"I have been in the hospital since Tuesday. However, after a very, very wise confinement at home. I had to call the doctors. I was totally exhausted, with terrible diarrhea. These are not the usual symptoms of the Covid but yet it was the Covid that I had. I was hospitalized at the end of the virus ", detailed the consultant of Canal Football Club, the flagship football show of Canal +, in a video message posted on Twitter . "There, the ambulance is coming to get me to take me home," added the columnist.

Pierre Ménès, 56, was saved in 2016 thanks to a double transplant of a kidney and a liver. What had deprived him of antenna for long months.

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