A coronavirus patient has spent almost two months suffering relapses, according to the BBC. David from Bristol has had to self-isolate in one room in his home to protect his wife and baby daughter. The 42-year-old man relapsed after he thought he had been getting better.

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He told the BBC: “I’ve been eating and sleeping here separate from my wife for the last seven weeks.

“It’s been hard work.

“There are people like me who have experienced these waves of on and off.

“When I first relapsed, when it first got worse, it was quite a scary experience.”

David continued: “You don’t know whether that means you’re going down, down, down.

“So it is quite scary to get worse after you thought you were getting better.”

Dr Philip Gothard, a consultant at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases offered insight: “With many patients with other diseases who are recovering from an acute illness, you do tend to see this waxing and waning effect as you’re slowly getting better and you have good days and bad days.

“There’s some evidence to suggest that the prolonged features are the body’s response to infection rather than the infection itself persisting in their bodies.”

Felicity, 49, from London described being in been in a similar situation to David for the last six weeks.

She told the BBC: “When I was really ill, I was going on my hands and knees up and down the stairs.

“Through this entire experience of being sick and trying to recover, it’s been mentally overwhelming.”

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Felicity added: “The hardest part was, having got through the first 10 days of being very sick and thinking I was getting better, things later getting much much worse.

“I was experiencing such horrific abdominal pains that I was just calling out in extreme agony.

“Even the slightest uphill slope is a real struggle since being ill.”

Neither Felicity nor David have been tested, but both were told by the doctors that they probably have the virus.

They’ve also been reassured that they’re no longer infectious.

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