Veteran Peruvian striker Jefferson Farfan has become the first player in Russia to test positive for COVID-19, his Lokomotiv Moscow club said on Saturday, just five weeks before the Premier League season restarts.

"The Coronavirus has been diagnosed in our player Jefferson Farfan. Our best wishes for your health, Jeff. Recover quickly," Lokomotiv tweeted. Anatoli Mechtcheriakov, chairman of the club's board of directors, told Ria-Novosti news agency: "He is in Moscow and has not been hospitalised."