Today ABC news.A day after testing negative to COVID-19 and feeling healthy, Melbourne youth leader Ahmed Hassan was in a hospital emergency ward in terrible pain, shaking, and now testing positive for coronavirus.
Key points:
- Ahmed Hassan was told his COVID-19 test was negative
- A day later he was hospitalised and tested positive for coronavirus
- He encourages other young people to take the virus seriously
"It happened all of a sudden and within 24 to 48 hours of having a negative test, you're a positive and you're in a hospital bed struggling to contain yourself and, you know, basically losing all types of control," Mr Hassan, 23, told 7.30.
"People need to understand that this virus does not discriminate for age, colour or postcode."
Mr Hassan, who has type 1 diabetes, believes he caught the virus when visiting his father at his parents' home. Both his mother and father also tested positive.
Mr Hassan said the visit to their home lasted around 30 minutes and that he socially distanced while there. He suspects he picked up the virus via a door handle or another surface.
He was tested for COVID-19 on a Saturday. The following evening he was told he had tested negative.
"I was quite excited by that," he said.
On Monday, he stayed at home and "felt a bit of muscle pain, a bit of cramping", but he "didn't think much of it in terms of COVID symptoms".
"It was later that night around 10 o'clock that I was hospitalised."
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