Bengaluru’s covid-19 survivor ‘doing perfectly well now’

“I am doing perfectly well now. I had travel to Los Angeles via Heathrow airport and that is when I came in contact with many travellers. I might have picked up the infection there,” Raghava told ANI.

It was in Los Angeles when he started getting a ‘low-grade fever’ which led him to prepone his flight to Bengaluru. “When I landed back in Bengaluru on March 8, I had a fever and isolated myself. The same day I went to a hospital where my travel history was taken and I tested positive for covid-19,” he said.

The next day, he was admitted to the isolation centre. His entire family was also tested but the results came back negative. When asked about what does suffering from covid-19 feel like, he responded that it was a like a regular viral fever and was “nothing to be scared of”.

“The fever is very grinding, and since my childhood, I never had a fever. I had a fever for almost 15 days consistently 100 degrees (F), he said.

About his experience at the isolation Centre, he said that it was an experience and like that of hospital. “At the isolation centre one has to take care of themselves, unlike a hospital where doctors and nurses take care of the patient full. I have to put a wet cloth on myself and you cannot overdose yourself with calpol or paracetamol,” he said.

For him, “The tough times are now over” and now he has fully recovered but in the process, he ended up losing about 5 kilograms. “After the 15th day when I woke up with no fever, did you cut test for the nose and the throat and it came negative,” he recalled, and on March 22, he was set free.

For one week, he has been in self quarantine at home “being completely watchful” and the symptoms do not reoccur. (ANI)