FORMER dual code Wales rugby international Lenny Woodard has been self-isolating after shown all the signs of coronavirus.

Pontypool-born Woodard, 43, won five caps for the Welsh rugby league side and played rugby union for Wales on their 1998 tour to South Africa and Zimbabwe, turning out against Emerging Springboks and Gauteng Falcons, but didn’t ever win a test cap.

His rugby union club sides included Cross Keys, Pontypool, Ebbw Vale and London Welsh.

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He made a public statement on Facebook on Thursday, March 26.

Mr Woodard said: “Well here I am after three nights of aches 39.7 degrees body temperature and looking like I’ve been dug up, I finally called NHS last night, twice. The first time I didn’t have fever and then literally within hours I’d gone to 39.7 degrees and couldn’t get it down for hours.

“After having three call backs from increasingly higher graded staff and more specific questionnaires they’re pretty confident I have it, so am I.

“This is not like a cold, on the other hand I don’t feel like I’m dying either, nowhere near.

“I’m not well, really not well.

“The worst parts of it are the constant aching (this is day four), every single joint even my fingers are aching, annoying cough (day seven) reduced breathing capability (day two) , I’ve managed to get temperature down to 38.2 with paracetamol and lots of water but I feel freezing all the time.

“I’m also tired all the time, near exhausted since Monday 10pm and I’ve slept the vast majority of the time.

“I’m not often ill, last time was four years ago and I can’t remember the time before that, I normally try and sleep through illnesses but this is a different level, I’m knackered walking downstairs and it feels like the breaths I take in are only taking 60 percent of the air available which panics you a little bit.

“I’ll repeat myself, I feel really ill but I don’t feel like I’m dying, nowhere near.

“Please minimise the need to go out, it’s here and it’s a lot more prevalent than we are led to believe.”