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Common cold, ‘camel flu’ … or Covid?
“These are clearly not ideal circumstances, with so little time ahead of that big final against Argentina on Sunday,” FRANCE 24’s Selina Sykes reported from Doha. “If there is a bit of a reassuring element to this so-called virus that is spreading within the French camp, it is that it only seems to last a few days.”
But it’s not just some of the French players who are feeling unwell, FRANCE 24 sport journalist Romain Houeix said on the phone from Qatar. “A lot of the French journalists are in bad shape,” he said. “People have been coughing and feeling unwell for a week. We can’t say what it is; we’re working 15-hour days and we don’t have time to take tests”.
“It’s my theory that those players have Covid,” Houeix continued. “In sport they tend to talk about sore throats when it’s possibly Covid and they haven’t been tested. Another theory is that it’s ‘camel flu’, a local virus.”
