Man with chronic Covid-19 symptoms tests NEGATIVE, shares result online

By Dansu Peter 

A South African, Dumisani Ndubane by name has shared his negative test result of the global ravaging pandemic, the Covid-19, despite having chronic symptoms associated with the dreaded virus. 

Ndubane, in a post on his Facebook time-line said he decided to share the result of his Covid-19 test to correct the misconception many have about subjecting self to the test having observed some related symptoms. 

See text of Dumisani Ndubane's on Facebook below:

"Friends and comrades, my test results are finally in. The SARS-CoV-2  PCR test is Negative. This means they did not detect the viral RNA signature of the Corona virus in the throat swab sample they took from me." 

"This is welcome news for me particularly because I do have a history of acute pneumonia and ended up being hospitalized for 5 days in 2009 after developing a cruel case of pneumonia in one lung." 

"It does mean however that I need to continue being vigilant and take precaution when venturing out, as I can still get infected with this virus and I don't know if my body will mount a good enough response when I do." 

"On the positive side, it does mean that my hyper active mind will dial down on imagining pseudo symptoms. And just concentrate on conquering this cough that I still have." 

"Why share this here in this public platform? I want to contribute in fighting the fear around testing. Would I have shared if the results were positive? Yes, I would have, because even that would go some way towards delivering the message that at some point many of us will contract this disease."