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Newcastle United captain Jamaal Lascelles and winger Allan Saint-Maximin have been suffering the long-term effects of COVID-19.
The club’s training ground was closed last month after a coronavirus outbreak.
More than 10 people at the club tested positive for the virus, including players Federico Fernández and Isaac Hayden.
Now, club sources have confirmed that Lascelles and Saint-Maximin have also been struggling with symptoms of COVID-19.
French footballer Saint-Maximin and his teammate Lascelles have not trained since testing positive
None of the players have trained since testing positive, and will return once they have recovered and the relevant protocols are covered.
Both center-back Lascelles and Saint-Maximin last played on 21 November, when Newcastle lost 2-0 to Chelsea.
The club’s coach, Steve Bruce, said last Friday that it has been a “terrifying” experience for the players.
He said: “My thoughts are with the two players and their well-being.
“It’s terrifying when you think they’re young, fit, and absolutely supreme athletes.
Captain Jamaal Lascelles will return to football once fully recovered
“If anyone needs to be reminded of how serious this is, then we’ve seen it.
“We have had vomiting, sores, ulcers in the mouth, no smell, no taste, but what is important, and what is worrying, is the well-being of one or two of them.
“It’s not good at all.
“That long-term COVID is something I wouldn’t think possible in young, fit athletes.
Club coach Steve Bruce said the well-being of some players ‘is not good at all’
“Unfortunately, it is so.
“They go for a walk for half an hour and then they want to go back to bed. It’s just as brutal as that.”
He added: “Fatigue is the only thing that has hit them all. For two of them, it is beyond that. We hope there will be light at the end of the tunnel, but some find it difficult.”
Ipswich Town FC tweeted that club physical therapist Matt Byard believes that given the rapid spread of COVID-19, the game should be temporarily stopped.
He said: “Soccer can benefit from a ‘circuit breaker’ before playing safely again.”
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