“I never felt so sick,” says Joaquim Sousa Martins about Covid-19

reafter having been present at ‘Cristina’s Day’, last Wednesday, where she spoke about the fight against COVID-19-19, Joaquim Sousa Martins recalled this phase on Monday morning, in ‘Especial 24’, on TVI24.

“It was four weeks ago today that I woke up with a heavy head, a stuffy nose, and sinusitis, so the first day I didn’t really care.ncia this symptom that I have had for more than 20 years ”, he began to remember.

“On the second day, Tuesday, he fell tired on the couch, this was a symptom that sinusitis does not bring. And at home, we decided to do the test immediately, on Wednesday, because above all we have two children at home, we have elderly people in our life and we have our partners and co-workers. So we had to protect this entire community, “he added, referring that the woman also underwent the test at that time.

“I was positive and my wife negative. I immediately entered lockdown and my days were relatively easy. I’d say Thursday through Sunday were easy days, “he recalled.” I felt a physical rest, very tired in everything I did, “he continued, explaining that the fight was not always easy.

“This is an alert that I leave to the people. It is not the end of the world, but it is complicated because I have never felt so sick in my life. To try to explain what I felt, I add the flu to food poisoning“, he is stressed.

Joaquim Sousa Martins also said that he had a fever, a mild cough and that he was not short of breath. However, the woman had difficulty breathing, “which is scary”. The journalist explained that Initially the woman tested negative, but after 24 hours she began to have some symptoms, took the test and received a positive result.

“Above all, we managed to protect two children that we have at home. Both were negative. We have a very strict privacy policy. I know that, fortunately, we have conditions at home that allow us to do this isolation. direct. The children were in one floor and we were in another. They only went to the kitchen to eat and went upstairs immediately. We never sleep on the same floor as the children. We haven’t seen each other for 15 days.“shared.

“Every time I heard the children coming down the stairs I thought: if we lived in a T2 it would be complicated. I understand and understand very well the difficulties families have to deal with all this side of the disease. It’s very complicated“he added.

But it didn’t stop there. “The feeling we have is that of those who are afraid to travel by plane and are going to travel 12 hours, people spend 12 hours in suffering thinking that the plane will crash. You spend 15 days always thinking that your plane could crash“, he stressed, sharing his testimony.

Despite being a careful person, the journalist did not stop confessing that “sometimes he sinned in summer.” “I went to dinners and lunches with my friends, my family. I take good care of myself at work and our protocol here at TVI luckily it worked because i didn’t contaminate anyone. I don’t know where I got the error from, I haven’t been with anyone who has historically tested positive“, he stressed, referring that the only behavior that he can see as less good is the fact of taking off the mask and putting it in his pocket.

“I ask people to be careful with the mask. I take off my mask and put it in my pocket, maybe bad behavior, it could have been there, I have no idea. But in fact, I didn’t sin much in the last few days before testing positive, I didn’t, and the truth is that it happened.“, he stressed, highlighting the importance ofncia Compliance with safety regulations.

“It will not be a miracle that we cure this virus, it will not be with government policies, nor will it be by decree. Each of us has to contribute“, finished.

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