A sixty-eight-year-old man, who is one of Moruca’s earliest recovered COVID-19 cases, has said the stigma he suffered after his diagnosis did more harm than the virus itself.
The man, who asked not to be named due to the rumours already spread by persons within his community, was asymptomatic.
He had travelled to Georgetown in early of April to visit a relative and returned to Moruca in the middle of the month. It was not until two weeks later that the Kumaka District Hospital contacted him to inform him that his relative had contracted the virus and he was listed as one of the persons the man had come into contact with. He was then requested by the hospital to go into quarantine for 21 days.