The Star's health journalist shares her own, rather unusual, Covid-19 story


A nurse checking my roommate’s oxygen levels. The nurses would wheel the equipment around the ward three times a day to check our vital signs. — Photos: REVATHI MURUGAPPAN/The Star

Oh no, not yet another Covid-19 patient testimony, I hear you groan!

Yes, it is, but my symptoms were so atypical that even the doctors were gobsmacked at the initial stage.

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