Chinese Super League star Dia Saba denies Covid-19, says isolation was ‘like prison’
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Chinese Super league footballer Dia Saba has spoken of his disbelief in the coronavirus and the difficulties of living inside the bubble this season in an interview with Israeli news site Walla.
“I do not believe in Corona not even one per cent. I cannot even put on a mask. It is difficult for me to do things, if I do not believe in them,” he said in the interview published on Sunday, amid claims that it was exaggerated.
“I think they have changed the name of the flu to Corona and are running with it. Maybe we will know in a few more years, if at all, what was here. I do not understand,” Saba said, recounting his own flu earlier in the year.
“The world cannot be stopped because of such a thing.” he said, “You have to live with it.”
Saba, an Arab-Israeli who plays for the national team, told the site that his time in isolation on returning to China from Israel in the summer was “like prison” and that “this period is one of the hardest in my life.”
