COVID-19 Patient 6 Says He is Doing Well

Patient Six remains in self-isolation in his home in San Ignacio Town. The middle-aged male is believed to have contracted COVID-19 from patient four, Hubert Pipersburgh, who died from the virus on Sunday. Patient six would travel with Pipersburgh from San Ignacio to Belize City regularly and says that he did not show the regular signs and symptoms. He told News Five that his sense of smell and taste disappeared as symptoms of the virus. He says that he is doing well in self-isolation.

On the Phone: Covid-19 Patient 6

“Well I was shocked when I got the results back yesterday morning because I had really been feeling fairly well. I had very minor symptoms over the past two weeks the worse being the sinus problems. I had a severe nasal congestion and pressure and I lost all sense of taste and smell and while I do suffer serial allergy I thought all along that was happening. I thought it was a case of sinusitis. The only new was the lost of smell and taste and that was a bit concerning. Not too much because you are hearing more that the symptoms related to coughing and fever and respiratory problems and I had none of that. I was shocked when it came and that I was positive.”

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“How many days were you feeling these symptoms?”

On the Phone: Covid-19 Patient 6

“About two weeks with the symptoms. Even now I am still having it a bit but it is subsiding as the days pass. So I regained some smell and taste and is say probably twenty-five, thirty percent is back. It is not fully. The nasal congestion is subsiding now and I believe that I am in the recovery phase for this. I should be good in a few more days.  I believe that I will be retested in about a week’s time just to be on the safe side, to make sure that it is gone.”