Published 13:10 IST, March 31st 2020

Nurse on the frontline against COVID-19 shares her experience, says 'I was scared'

A nurse's first-hand experience of handling the coronavirus outbreak is doing rounds on social media. She talks about the time when she was called back for duty

Reported by: Vishal Tiwari
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For past few months, coronavirus outbreak has gripped world like or diseases in 21st century. pandemic has forced countries to impose partial or complete lockdowns in order to block spre of virus and that includes India, which went into a state of isolation for 21 days from March 25 onwards. Medical workers, be it, doctors or nurses, all have been called back to rejoin duty to help authorities fight contagious disease. Amid all this chaos, an Indian nurse's first-hand experience of handling outbreak is doing rounds on social media. 

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post that is going viral, discusses impact of coronavirus outbreak from a nurse's point of view. In post, nurse talks about time when she was called for service to hospital to fight COVID-19. She says that initially, she was scared because of her two children and husband at home, but she h to rejoin as "re's plan B because when duty calls, you show up". In post, she talks about how her 4th grer was 'naively happy' that schools were shut, while her or daughter was paraid that she’d catch virus. 

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She also talks about challenge she h to face while getting to hospital. She couldn't take a taxi because risk re was so large, so, she went with her husband who drove her to hospital. However, keeping in mind risk associated with it, she decided to stay at hospital for next few days. nurse in post says, "it h been 5 days since I’d been home last. My daughter’s kept calling to make sure I h my mask on or was eating, but even those calls lasted a few seconds." post was shared by Humans of Bombay on its Facebook handle and it has since garnered more than 31,000 reactions and over 2,300 comments.

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Coronavirus outbreak

COVID-19 has claimed more than 37,800 lives across world and has infected more than 7,85,800 people globally since it first broke out in December 2019. China was most affected country until last week before Italy and Spain surpassed it to record most number of deaths anywhere in world due to COVID-19. United States and France are on verge of overtaking China in terms of number of deaths recorded in se countries. virus is believed to have originated from a seafood market in China's Wuhan city, epicentre of disease, where animals were reportedly being tred illegally.

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13:19 IST, March 31st 2020