Inter club doctor Piero Volpi has confirmed that he is now on the mend having contracted Coronavirus in recent weeeks.
“I’m feeling better. I left the hospital, I’m at home. I’m in isolation, with a mask and all the possible precautions for those who live with me,” he began an interview with Milan based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport which appeared in today’s print edition.
“I still can’t say that I have defeated COVID-19. After the 14-day quarantine, I will take two more tests to see if I have healed. On March 27, I was hospitalised, it is an experience I would not wish on anyone.”
Volpi then went on to state that he believes there is a great difference in how it actually feels to have it and the perceived reality of it.
“There’s a great distance between the true and the perceived reality in this terrible story and this goes for all the different components, including sports. The risk is that we tend to underestimate the emergency we are still facing.”
Volpi then went on to insist that those in charge cannot think about setting dates for training or for the season to resume given the current circumstances amid reports that Serie A clubs may be allowed to begin training at the start of next month and resume the season near the end of it.
“This is an emergency that can’t lead to reasoning in the long run, but not even in the medium term. We can’t set a date now and we must think about it in narrow terms.
“In the case of May 4, for example, it will be only be possible to evaluate with certainty at the end of April, to see if the recovery is really possible.
“We are dealing with health, the risks are enormous, people’s lives are at stake here and in the case of a team that must play, there are 60 or 70 families to protect. We can guide science, nothing else.”
As things currently stand, Volpi is the only person who has something to do with Inter to have contracted the virus, which has caused great disruption to all sectors of life.
