Italy flanker Maxime Mbanda has vowed to push through the fear and keep driving ambulances carrying coronavirus patients to and from hospital.
The Zebre back-row forward is volunteering for Italy's Yellow Cross charity, driving Covid-19 patients to hospital in emergencies, or transferring patients from one medical centre to another.
The 27-year-old admitted he does fear for his own health, but has pledged to keep on volunteering for the duration of the pandemic.
Wearing protective clothing from head to foot, Mbanda admitted patients desperately gasping for breath can only communicate their fears through their eyes. "I can tell you that I'm scared, because every time you step into an infected department in the hospital you know that the