It had started with a dry cough and sore throat, he said, followed a few days later by a shortness of breath so severe he fainted while waiting for a hospital coronavirus test. "I was feeling like there is a thick plate pressuring my chest and also needles poking my chest." The 44-year-old investor and married father of a nine-year-old daughter already suffered from high blood pressure before the virus. Song was quarantined at home as a precaution but remained asymptomatic for several days before the virus struck suddenly with a severe cough. "I was relieved when I entered the hospital room -- because at least there, I knew I wouldn't have died alone," she said.

Source: Daily Nation April 07, 2020 02:03 UTC