Coronavirus UK – First Brit known to catch virus ‘beat deadly flu with glass of hot whisky and honey’
THE first Brit known to have caught coronavirus has told The Sun he beat the killer bug with a “glass of hot whisky and honey”.
Teacher Connor Reed, 25, was diagnosed with coronavirus by doctors in Wuhan, China two months ago.
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He went to hospital after struggling to breathe and could not shake off a bad cough — all classic symptoms.
Shocked Connor was kept in hospital for two weeks.
Connor, originally from Llandudno, North Wales, has lived in China for three years.
He said: “'I was stunned when the doctors told me I was suffering from the . I thought I was going to die but I managed to beat it.
“I used the inhaler which helped control the cough and drank a hot whisky with honey until that ran out.
“It’s an old fashioned remedy but it seemed to do the trick.
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A Chinese baby boy has been born inside a coronavirus quarantine zone with both his parents feared to carry the deadly disease.
Medics dressed in hazmat suits have delivered the 7lb 11oz boy at Wuhan Union Hospital on Saturday.
The Wuhan hospital's isolation unit, inside the quarantined Hubei province, is the designated national location for pregnant coronavirus patients.
As a result, medics such as Doctor Song have been sent from numerous other provinces to assist with the influx of people.
The new mother has been held in isolation as a suspected carrier of the deadly virus, while her husband remains in quarantine after he was diagnosed.
Pictures from inside Wuhan Union Hospital, one of the facilities on the front line of the viral outbreak in Central China's Hubei Province, show the newborn boy in the arms of Doctor Song Bo.
The doctor said: "The child is healthy and everyone is very happy,” explaining the baby boy would be transferred to Wuhan Children's Hospital for further tests.
He added: "As a father-of-two myself, it's been tough being on the front line day and night, but we're all so excited to see this new life.”
"I believe we will win the fight against this disease."
'REAL GHOST TOWN'
"I did refuse to take the antibiotics the doctors prescribed me because I didn’t want to take any medicines.”
Connor, who moved to Wuhan last summer to teach English, was discharged from the Zhongnan University Hospital in the city.
He added: “It was only when I called back a couple of weeks ago that they told me I’d had the coronavirus.
";I’ve been off work and the boss thinks we will be reopening in a couple of weeks but I’m not so sure.
“Wuhan is becoming a real ghost town — there is hardly anybody in the streets and the shops are running low of fresh fruit and vegetables.
“And there is no medicine or masks left in the pharmacies.
“If you go out without a mask the police will arrest you.
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"The authorities are really worried about how to contain this and stop it spreading.”
Connor said the Foreign Office was “disinterested” when he called to say he had been diagnosed with the virus.
He said: “They kept asking if I wanted a place on a flight out but I said no. I’ll stick it out here. I am proof coronavirus can be beaten.”
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