ERI Covid-19 patient warns people to 'keep staying indoors' after recovery

Calum Wishart has recovered from the virus.

A 25-year-old Covid-19 patient at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary has issued a warning for people to keep staying indoors after his recovery from the virus.

Calum Wishart, who the Evening News reported last week had called his experience with coronavirus the ‘worst week of his life’, is now at home having recovered.

He is still feeling tired as a result of the ordeal, and the first couple of days at home were ‘very scary’ for his family as he was still struggling to draw breath.

Calum Wishart is at home recovering from the virus.

But Mr Wishart is slowly improving, and has re-issued his advice for others to stay at home.

“For all of you the task is simple. Keep spreading the message to stay indoors,” he wrote in a public Facebook post.

“If you do you’ll protect yourself, your loved ones and our amazing hospital staff. If we all do our bit and stick together we’ll beat this and hopefully less people will have to go through what I did.”

Mr Wishart also said thank you to the ‘amazing’ NHS staff who treated him at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and to everyone who helped spread the message to stay at home by sharing his initial Facebook post.

In this post, written from his hospital bed, he described symptoms of Covid-19 which had put him through ‘the worst week of his life’, and urged people to stay at home.

“Everyone needs to do their part and start taking this seriously. I don’t care how boring you think self isolation is, I can guarantee it’s a million times better than this,” he wrote.

He asked young people in particular to take the virus seriously and to not believe that only older people or those with pre-existing health conditions were susceptible.