Prove that Sequentially Compact Metric Spaces are Lindelöf without the Axiom of Choice.

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A proof can be found here, but it seems that it uses AC. I would like to know if there is a proof for this fact without AC.

I came up with this question after seeing a proof of sequential compactness $\implies$ Compactness for metrizable topological spaces without using generalized Lebesgue's Number Lemma for sequentially compact metric spaces. Both proofs can be found here.

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The result cannot be proved without the axiom of choice. For instance, let $X$ be an infinite set which contains no countably infinite subset (the existence of such a set is consistent with ZF), and give $X$ the discrete metric. Then $X$ is sequentially compact since there are no sequences in $X$ which take infinitely many different values so every sequence has a constant subsequence. But $X$ is not Lindelöf, since the open cover of $X$ by singletons has no countable subcover.