Teacher Caught Coronavirus While Visiting Her Cancer-Stricken Mother
Teacher Caught Coronavirus While Visiting Her Cancer-Stricken Mother
A teacher has revealed how she contracted the coronavirus after visiting her mother who was dying of cancer in China.
Muying Shi, 37, flew to her
birthplace in Wuhan – the epicentre of the deadly new infection that has now
killed more than 300 – in early January to help nurse her ill mother Liping
Wang, 63.
Ms Shi, who has lived in
London for five years, is now under quarantine in the locked-down city’s
Hospital 8 after CT scans showed the infection in her lungs, and has no idea if
she can return to her home in Britain, the Sunday Mirror reported.
She said: ‘I am really
scared… I fear for my life but I can’t think about it because I would just
break down. I feel like I’m hanging on by a thread.’
Ms Shi, a private la...