Nigeria soccer international, Simeon Tochukwu Nwankwo, popularly known as Simy Nwankwo, who plays for Crotone in the Serie B Italian league, has told journalists how scary the coronavirus outbreak in the country has been. He added that people had been living in panic and fear.

Italy has recorded the most number of cases in Europe with 17,660 confirmed cases and a total of 1,266 deaths.

The Europian country is on a virtual lockdown, as part of its government’s moves to curtail the spread of the deadly virus and the government has urged people to stay in indoors, except going to grocery stores for supplies and pharmacies.

Italy’s Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, also confirmed that the government had placed travel ban across the country.

The strike gave a clue of how life presently is on every street in the country.

It is very scary; I must confess it is a very difficult situation. We just have to keep moving, respect the rules because at this moment it is much more important than football, so we just pray and hope,

he said on SuperSport Naija Made on Saturday.

At the moment, it is a total lockdown, the government had to take a decision because the numbers were going high every day and it continues to go high.

No training, everything is suspended, it’s not just about football, it’s about everything in the country.

Presently we have only the grocery stores and the pharmacies open, so we are just told to stay home because at this moment the numbers are really, really high.

As of today (Saturday), I think 15,000 people are affected, so what we do is stay home all day and do some little activities so as not to be out of shape but of course training is different.

The streets are empty, people are panicking, so just stay home, pray and wish things get better.

For us, we have time to spend with our families, that is true because we are always busy going around but at the same time staying home in this type of moment is not nice because there is always panic.

We had a closed-door game and I had to come home panicking. I don’t know if I’m safe or if I’d picked up the virus, so it’s never good spending time like this at home.

I think when things are over we’ll have more time to spend together,

he explained.

Justin Nwosu

Justin Nwosu is the founder and publisher of Flavision. His core interest is in writing unbiased news about Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. He’s a strong adherent of investigative journalism, with a bent on exposing corruption, abuse of power and societal ills.

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