SINGAPORE: When Daviest Ong turned up unannounced at the door of his family's flat in Whampoa last week, his reunion with his parents and elder sister was a teary affair peppered with hugs.Advertisement
“It was very demoralising to keep taking the test. Every time, you go through the pain hoping for a negative result,” he said.Daviest Ong was warded in hospital for more than two months after being diagnosed with COVID-19. His loneliness was only staved off each time a nurse came in, but that did little to satiate his need for social interaction.
His stay may have been made worse by the realisation he might have only himself to blame for his predicament.While there is no way for him to confirm how he got the illness, his best guess is a rare night out of partying in the United Kingdom. That was when he threw caution to the wind. “Even at the grocery store, I would only touch things I needed. I’d discard the gloves after that in a box outside my house,” he said.While studying at the library, he would regularly make for the toilet with an urgent need to wash his hands. Hand sanitisers became a new accessory.“If I got the infection that night, I regret going for the party. I could have avoided it,” he said.
The protocols dun even make sense.
So was he non-infectious in 11 days and wasted all that additional time in quarantine?
The truth of mortality rate
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