An asthmatic woman is among the country’s COVID-19 survivors after a near-death experience with the deadly virus.
On Wednesday, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle shared the painful experience of the patient, identified only as “Natalie,” in an attempt to show citizens the effect the virus can have on one’s body.
According to Gordon-Boyle, on a Friday Natalie went to bed feeling extremely exhausted and had a particularly tough weekend. The following Monday she began feeling excruciating pain in her legs, which she thought was a trapped nerve and she treated herself with paracetamol. The pain, doctors later told her, was as a result of the virus going to her muscles. She said the woman had a cough but it wasn’t persistent, which people think is always the sign.