Basketball star Liz Cambage believes she survived coronavirus before the world knew what it was.

The 28-year-old was playing in China in December before she started displaying symptoms similar to the deadly virus, forcing her to be hospitalised near Beijing.

The Australian Opals centre revealed that she was confined to a wheelchair with pneumonia and was on a drip for three days fighting off her sickness.

“I actually was sick in hospital and I honestly think I had corona,” Cambage told The Herald Sun.

“I was so weak, I couldn’t walk, I was in a wheelchair. I had pneumonia. I think I had it before it was a global thing.”

The Las Vegas Aces WNBA star underwent blood tests and was cleared before returning home in January.

She said Australians were fortunate to have quality medical services after she spent time in a Chinese hospital.

Cambage will join the Opals for Olympic training at the end of February and says she is confident the games will go ahead.

“I think the media and people are reading too much into it and it’s causing hysterics in the general public. I can’t imagine them calling it off,” she said.