Ghana midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu has described Italy's encounter with COVID-19 as one of the most horrifying experience.

Agyemang-Badu revealed the country was as quite as a cemetery during the period when the death toll was fast rising.

Italy is one of the country's worst hit by the pandemic, with 236,142 cases and 34,167 confirmed deaths.

“The country looked like a cemetery, no one was in town. Everything was closed, everyone was at home thinking about themselves,” he told Citi Sports.

“Fortunately for me, I know how to cook a bit so that was a plus during this period, else it would have been a disaster for me.”

“We’d just wake up, take our bath and sit to watch TV. At that time, it was very serious to the extent that all we would see were dead bodies and hospitals. For about three weeks I couldn’t watch TV anymore."

Italy was on a 40 day lockdown due to COVID-19 with all activities at a standstill.

“I would be on my phone chatting with friends and video calling my family. That’s what I’ve been doing for the last 40 days,” Agyemang-Badu explained how he survived the lockdown.