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The head of the Department of Emergency Situations, Raed Arafat, is one of the public figures exposed to the disease with the new coronavirus: contact doctors, nurses, colleagues. He confessed to Digi24 that he had several moments when the slightest symptom – a sneeze, a cough – crossed his mind and the thought that “it could be” COVID.
“There are times when you think, without any discussion, about this, but when you think about it, you automatically see if it is real, you test yourself, you check, you check the temperature, you check all the symptoms, you check if it really is a risk or No. It is normal for us to be afraid, “explained Raed Arafat.
When asked how many times he had been tested since the start of the pandemic, Raed Arafat said that he did some rapid tests, about four or five, but did not do any real-time PCR tests, because that was not the case. “Even if the result of these rapid tests is questionable, because it can be false negative or false positive, I did. But I had no symptoms or problems or fever or anything that would make me do a PCR test,” Raed Arafat told Digi24. Friday night.
The DSU chief also said that before the COVID epidemic, if his driver had a cold, he often caught a cold, because they spent time together, shared the same space in the car, and were not wearing masks at the time. That is why, Raed Arafat said, it is even more important now, in the context of the pandemic, that at the slightest suspicion, in the presence of symptoms, not to go to work and not send children to school, to isolate and to control our health.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
