Sports & Coronavirus | Liverpool’s Kenny Dalglish released from hospital


Sports & Coronavirus | Liverpool’s Kenny Dalglish released from hospital

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Former player and manager of the Liverpool Football Club, Kenny Dalglish has been released from hospital. Earlier, Dalglish was tested positive for the Novel Coronavirus ‘Covid-19’.

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In a statement released on Friday, Liverpool confirmed that Dalglish was admitted to hospital for an Covid-19 infection. He required intravenous antibiotics but was asymptomatic.

Although, The former Scotland international will now be coming back home, where he is advised to self-isolate.

In an interaction with The Sunday Post, Dalglish hailed the work of healthcare workers and hospital staff told, “People may think my name got me the best of care but every patient in the NHS gets the best of care,”

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“As a nation, we are lucky to have them and I wish them all well as they work tirelessly to help the country through this pandemic,” he added.

Dalgish has always been be a bigger figure at Anfield, having won three European Cups and six English league titles as a player first and then adding three more league triumphs as a manager.

Currently, more than 1.7 million people across the globe have been reported to be infected by the Novel coronavirus COVID-19 globally, according to a tally by Reuters. This virus was declared a pandemic by WHO on March 11th.