'I Thought I Was Going To Die of COVID-19': An exclusive interview with Ateng Abdalla after she recovered from Coronavirus.

Ateng Abdalla Ajak is a South Sudanese Australian health worker in Perth and a resident of Western Australia, and she was diagnosed with COVID-19 about two weeks ago. Ateng was moved between the hospital and her home where her husband took care of her.

Ateny Abdalla on hospital bed and her husband. Source: Supplied

Highlights

• Recovery from COVID-19 and what she went through
• Home care and the support from a family member
• How to protect yourself from COVID-19 and family

She was cleared on Tuesday but told that she can still be infected if she was to meet another infected person because her immune system is still very week. 

 

Ateng said she might have contracted the disease at her working because another patient suspected of COVID-19 was admitted the day she caught the virus.

"I do believe I became sick on the 18 March because that was the times a patient suspected of COVID-19 was admitted in our ward...the whole thing started with uncontrollably sneezing, and I coughed 11 times within a matter of short time.

Since the times WHO announced COVID-19 as a pandemic, many healthcare workers across the world have been exposed to Coronavirus. Ateny asked all healthcare workers to follow all of the protectives or preventative measures put in place by authorities of concern agencies for one to help protect his or her family.