A woman who has caught Covid amid a surge in cases this summer has questioned “whether people still take the virus seriously anymore” as cases have spiked in recent weeks. Self-employed comedian and content creator, Olga Thompson, 49, from Herefordshire has been left “battered” by the virus. After contracting Covid, Ms Thompson said she lost her sense of taste, experienced severe omitting and was left so exhausted that she could barely pick up hear head up from her pillow.
She thinks she and her family caught the virus on a plane, returning from Corfu four weeks ago and is still suffering from severe exhaustion, body aches and dizziness. “I’m on week four of this now, and my chest is still sore, in a way this felt even more vicious than the last time,” Ms Thomspon told i . “I had to sleep on the toilet floor, I was vomiting and had diarrhoea.
I had the same sickness again when I had the vaccination in the summer.” Previously, i revealed that Covid cases are at their highest level since February after jumping by nearly a third in a week in England, analysis showed. Amid a surge in cases this summer, Boots has expanded its private Covid jabs programme and will now broaden the service to up to 80 shops across the country.
Although cases have risen, the 49-year-old, who has had Covid before, said when she tells people she’s ill, she feels dismissed, as many people she knows are not affected by Covid and there feels there is a stigma when talking about virus. S.
