Former Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann thinks that players should continue to train and play during the COVID-19 outbreak - unless they experience severe symptoms.

Lehmann was speaking about the return of action in the Bundesliga, which is underway from this weekend.

The game has been on a two-month hiatus in Germany, with other nations waiting even longer before resuming (if at all).

Lehmann was recently unveiled as a new board member at Hertha Berlin.

He told beIN SPORTS: "We had plenty of players who were infected and most of them didn't even show any symptoms.

"For young, healthy people with strong immune systems it's not such a big concern.

"The only thing this whole lockdown is based on is the hope that eventually we are going to find a vaccine or some medicine which cures it.

"There is only hope. So far we don't have anything. Because of that we cannot shut down everything so you have got to get on with it.

"As long as the symptoms are not that bad, players have to cope with it."