Officially, the first Serie A player hit by the coronavirus was Juventus defender Daniele Rugani on March 12. And in reality? We will probably never know, because it would have been necessary to carry out tests, but the declarations of Romelu Lukaku Tuesday evening did not fail to react in Italy. The Inter Milan striker, interviewed on a broadcast on the Belgian channel Vier, told how he and his teammates had been affected by a mysterious fever during the month of January.
The virus present in Lombardy from the beginning of January?
"We had a week off in December and then came back to work, and 23 out of 25 players were sick," he said. I am not joking. On January 26 we played against Cagliari and after around 25 minutes one of our defenders (Milan Skriniar) had to leave the field. He could not continue and almost passed out. Everyone was coughing and had a fever. When I warmed up, I was much hotter than usual. I hadn't had a fever in years. "
"We will never know if it was the coronavirus," Lukaku concluded. These are fueling the debates in Italy, one of the most affected countries in the world with nearly 25,000 deaths. Since the start of the epidemic, studies have tried to trace the thread to determine when Covid-19 first appeared in different countries. In Italy, researchers estimate that the virus circulated in early January in Lombardy.
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