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I infected my Daughter and Son with COVID-19 — Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde
Nollywood actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has opened on her Coronavirus experience while reacting to a debate on how Nollywood can adhere strictly to the health guidelines of COVID-19 before reopening productions on the favored filmmakers’ WhatsApp group, Filmic.
Vanguard reported that the veteran actress said she was treated by some infectious decease doctors who told her that a lot of people are infected with the virus because there’s no widespread testing.
Omotola further revealed that when most of the people feel unwell, they attribute it to malaria, diarrhea among other ailments.
Recalling how she contracted the disease on a movie set, the actress said;
“I hardly fall ill then once I left the set and began having chills subsequent day approximately , I knew something wasn’t right.. i assumed it’d be stress. This was on Monday, August 3. I waited till Tuesday and it got worse. i used to be shaking uncontrollably and my temperature was browsing the roof.”
“My spirit told me immediately, this is often not malaria or fever. I even have been extremely careful and paranoid about this COVID-19 stuff. So I told hubby I needed to be tested immediately. I even have a son that has Asthma!
“They came to check me on Wednesday and my result came out on Thursday evening … Positive. My world crashed. I felt crazy and empty.
“My symptoms were high fever and chills… luckily no other. But it had been so bad, they contemplated coming to evacuate me as my viral loaf was high and that i wasn’t recuperating … but God arose on behalf of me . I went into isolation immediately. We got my result but my daughter started feeling funny.
“So that they had to return test the entire family … I had infected my daughter and asthmatic son ! My God showed up on behalf of me as my son is asymptotic, so positive but not sick ! My daughter lost her smell and taste and had severe diarrhea. All has stopped now, thank God.
“My husband and last son tested negative respectively. We are all now arrested … taking another test soon.
“It’s physically, spiritually and emotionally exhausting because the doctors tell you it’s a 50/50 chance . Nothing you are doing really saves you . you’ll only take the vitamins, manage the symptoms and hope your body fights”
