The ex-wife of Arsenal legend Andrey Arshavin is fighting for her life in hospital after catching Covid-19. Former model and journalist Alisa Arshavina, 38, contracted the deadly virus while in an intensive coma for an unrelated disease.
Alisha, who shares a child with the former Gunner, 39, is reported to have been on a lung ventilator. Her heartbroken mother Natalia Sarycheva says that Alisa has been 'between life and death' for eight days.
Prior to catching coronavirus in a St Petersburg hospital, Alisa was suffering from acute pancreatitis and peritonitis and put into an artificial coma.
Her mother Natalia says she suffered '40% lung damage' as a result. "She has Covid-19 and pneumonia with a complication," she told reporters.