Arsenal goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin says she has been diagnosed with coronavirus.
Peyraud-Magnin said she first began suffering the symptoms of the virus on March 16, four days after returning to London from Lyon, where she was on international duty with the French women's team.
"All the doctors told me that I had contracted COVID-19," she said in a video on the Instagram channel of Lyon player Elodie Thomas.
"I have had a lot of symptoms related to this virus: fever, cold, constant headache, respiratory issues, severe fatigue and loss of taste and smell. I checked a lot of boxes.
"My mother told me that I had the symptoms of coronavirus, and I was really afraid. The difficulty in breathing followed, I really freaked out because it was stressful, the stress causes hyper ventilation and so on.
"Trying to phone people or say things, I couldn’t do it and it caused fatigue like I never had. It put me to bed. It’s been 11 days since I have been out of my house at all. Otherwise it’s better."
Peyraud-Magnin lives with Arsenal team-mate Louise Quinn. Her diagnosis is the first publicly confirmed case of COVID-19 since men's head coach Mikel Arteta revealed he was suffering with the symptoms on March 12.
The London Colney training ground, shared by the men's and women's teams as well as the Under-23 squad, has been closed since Arteta's announcement. Peyraud-Magnin urged her followers to obey the government's guidelines on social distance, saying: "I hope that there will be a before and especially an after for it to be positive for all of us.
"I would like to congratulate, a big congratulations, thank you, to the whole medical profession, to the emergency and assistance services. My father is a firefighter, my sister is a nurse. For all those people who go to the front for us, please stay at home."
Peyraud-Magnin joined Arsenal from Lyon in 2018. She has made three appearances for the Gunners in the Women's Super League this season.
