Norwich youngster Max Aarons admits it took for the Premier League to be suspended for him to take coronavirus seriously.

There hasn't been a ball in the competition since March 9 after Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi tested positive for the illness, suspending all matches until April 30.

Aarons told the Byline podcast."It's crazy. Obviously, this started a while back but we never actually thought that it would come to stopping sports.

"We knew that it was happening and the virus was around but until sports actually stopped, our games got called off and the season got put on hold, that's when it actually hit home to me that it was really serious.

"Nobody wants to stop sports but this is really serious and if that's what we have to do in terms of combating the virus then so be it."

He added: "There hadn't been damaging affects so for us, we carried on recovering as normal and building the week.

"We were supposed to play Southampton on the Saturday and it was only when, sadly, Mikel Arteta and Callum got diagnosed with coronavirus that we realised it was having a direct affect on the Premier League.

"That Friday we were going out to train and we didn't know whether we were going to have a game. When we came in from training, everything had been called off but it was definitely the right decision."