REVEALED: Two Newcastle United players suffering from long Covid are struggling to walk, with their manager revealing the ‘supreme athletes’ have suffered from vomiting, sores and mouth ulcers and he fears for their long-term health
- Jamaal Lascelles and Allan Saint-Maximin suffering from after-effects of covid
- One in 10 covid survivors suffer lasting symptoms three months after illness
- Some infected players cannot walk for 30 mins before needing to go to bed
Newcastle United have confirmed that captain Jamaal Lascelles and Allan Saint-Maximin are players suffering from the after-effects of Covid-19.
Manager Steve Bruce said on Friday that he fears two of his players have ‘long-term Covid’ and does not know when they will return.
It can be now be confirmed that Lascelles and Saint-Maximin are the players he was talking about.
Bruce revealed that the infected players cannot even walk for half an hour without needing to go back to bed.
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At least 10 players and staff have been affected by the virus at the club and Bruce said it is ‘frightening’ the impact it has had on two of them, with concern remaining for their long-term health.
‘My thoughts are with the two players, and the welfare of them,’ he said. ‘It’s frightening when you think they are young and fit and absolutely supreme athletes. If anybody needs reminding of how serious this is, then we have witnessed it.
‘We’ve had vomiting, sores, mouth ulcers, no smell, no taste, but the big thing, and which is the worrying, is the welfare of one or two of them. It’s not great at all.
Newcastle captain Jamal Lascelles is one player at the club who is suffering from long Covid
Steve Bruce said the infected players cannot walk for 30 mins without going back to bed
‘That long-term Covid is something which you wouldn’t think possible in young, fit, athletes. Unfortunately, it is so.
‘They go for a walk for half an hour and then they want to go back to bed. It’s as brutal as that. The fatigue is the one thing that has hit them all. For two of them, it’s beyond that. We hope there’s light at the end of the tunnel, but some are finding it a struggle.’
Asked when the two players would return, Bruce said: ‘I really don’t know. It’s had a damaging effect. So it won’t be a week or two – it’s going to be longer than that.
‘We hope they recover properly and I will give them the time to recover because it’s about the welfare of them and their long-term health.
‘If one or two of them have got long-term Covid, like it seems, then it’s very difficult to manage.’
It was revealed last week that one in 10 coronavirus survivors suffer lasting symptoms three months after beating the illness.
The Office for National Statistics published a report on ‘long Covid’ — a wide-range of symptoms which linger months after the original illness has cleared up.
It revealed that 9.9 per cent of Brits who beat the coronavirus still suffered from the lasting effects of the disease 12 weeks later.
The most common long Covid symptoms include fatigue, a persistent cough, headaches and loss of taste and smell
An Office for National Statistics report suggests 9.9 per cent of Brits who beat coronavirus still suffer from the lasting effects of the disease 12 weeks later. And 21 per cent reported persistent symptoms after five weeks of clearing the initial infection
