SAN FRANCISCO, May 30, (THEWILL) – Leicester City manager, Brendan Rodgers, has narrated how he tested positive for coronavirus in April.
Rogers, who stated that he began to feel unwell few weeks before the Premier League was postponed, added that he lost his sense of taste and smell.
Speaking about his experience, the former Liverpool coach stated: “The strangest thing was the smell and the taste. You’re eating your dinner and you could not smell or taste anything. That was the biggest thing.
“Then you lose your strength. You could hardly walk 10 yards in front of you without really blowing. I felt it was similar to when I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2011. When you get to a certain altitude, you walk and you really suffer in your breathing.
“You’re walking 10-20 yards and you thought, goodness me. The first time I tried to exercise I could hardly run 10 yards. It really did knock you but thankfully I was nowhere near as serious as a lot of people had it.
“The headache, it’s different. The headache I’d had, it felt really isolated on one side of your head. I thought: “If I don’t have it. I wonder what this is”, so that’s why we got the test.
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“My wife started feeling effects about a week after me. We just knew we must have had it. We were lucky enough to be able to get a couple of tests, 21 days after I started to feel ill. When we had the tests done it detected we had the antibodies.”
He also stated that his wife also had the virus but both of them have now made full recovery and he has discussed with his players but he is still getting tested twice a week.
He said: “I felt a duty to mention it in my chats with the players. We had lots of communication before we got together in person and it was something I mentioned to them.
“I’m still getting tested twice a week. This is still an area people are unsure of and you can’t take any risks with it. The training ground is very safe, we are tested on a Monday and a Thursday.”
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