Singer Robbie Williams has requested his band to cease the music and halted his performance in the course of a live performance after struggling to breathe.
As followers attending the Pinkpop music pageant within the Netherlands watched on confused, the singer claimed his exhaustion was a results of lengthy COVID.
“No, stop stop,” he introduced. “I’m f–ked. I’m f–ked. It’s long COVID, I’ve got long COVID.”
He added: “It’s not my f–king age, you f–kers.”
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The break befell whereas Williams, 49, was simply 4 songs into his set.
The Monsoon singer appeared out of breath as he requested his band, who had launched into the fourth observe of the evening, to pause the performance.
After his breather nonetheless, the star jumped straight again into singing, smashing by an extra 16 songs together with hits like Rock DJ, Kids, and Angels.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines lengthy COVID as a “condition that occurs in individuals with a history of probable or confirmed SARS CoV-2 infection, usually three months from the onset of COVID-19 with symptoms and that last for at least two months and cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis”.
Common signs can embrace “fatigue, shortness of breath, cognitive dysfunction but also others and generally have an impact on everyday functioning”.
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The singer has beforehand suffered COVID twice, the primary time being in April 2020, whereas the star was residence in Los Angeles.
At the time, Williams admitted to feeling “lethargic, tired and heavy” and made certain to isolate away from his household in an Airbnb for 3 weeks.
“The mental struggle has been the hardest bit about isolation, making sure we don’t slip into our own dark holes,” he advised followers on the time.
Later on in 2020 and in an try to keep away from the virus altogether, the singer momentarily moved to the Swiss mountains.
“I’m somewhere in Switzerland up a mountain,” he advised the BBC on the time. “I’m a bit neurotic and I thought, ‘Where can I place myself where it won’t get me?’ That’s social distancing in the extreme isn’t it?”
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Less than a 12 months later, the singer was struck with the virus once more however this time whereas on vacation within the Caribbean island of St Barts along with his spouse Ayda and their 4 kids.
After contracting the virus Williams was confined to their luxurious $186,000-a-week villa earlier than returning residence.
“Robbie’s been fairly sick,” a supply advised The Sun on the time.
“He’s confined to the villa where he is staying with his family. It’s not exactly the worst place in the world to be quarantined, although he cannot go to the beach. He will have to remain in quarantine for up to 14 days.”
Williams later advised the Daily Star: “All is good. I’m fine. I’m good. I was good and I will be good.”
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