Deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries has revealed she believes she has had coronavirus.
Asked whether she had experienced coronavirus herself on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Dr Harries said: “Well I have, and I found it a very unpleasant experience.
“I wasn’t well at all, I didn’t necessarily have some of the clear respiratory symptoms.”
She added: “I’m usually very fit and healthy. I was really very knocked off probably for about a week and very grateful to my children for looking after me.”
Asked after how long she felt well enough to return to work, Dr Harries said: “Obviously we absolutely need to follow our own advice and the advice is after seven days, if you no longer have symptoms, apart from potentially a bit of a cough which persists, then you should be fine to come back to work.
“Now in my case I was probably off for about 10 days. I knew I was unwell, but in fact the offness was more to do with the fact that I hadn’t been eating and was generally quite frail – I didn’t have persistent symptoms beyond that point.”
