It was the Monday night after he attended a Friday wedding, that Daniel Rowntree started feeling crook.
“My symptoms were fever [and] night sweats. I had three days of those,” said the 45-year-old Sydney DJ and music producer.
“The Thursday I came through, recovered. I was like ‘Wow, I feel amazing, whatever it was for those three days is gone’.”
But then friends of Daniel’s who’d also been at the wedding, contacted him to let him know they’d tested positive for COVID-19 and recommended he get checked out too.
So he went for a test, and a day later, he found out he had coronavirus.
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Now, after self-isolating himself, Daniel has come out the other side.
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He is one of more than 600 Australians who’ve recovered from COVID-19, although the true number is likely to be much higher as this figure is only reported in four jurisdictions — Victoria, WA, the ACT and Tasmania.
“Overwhelmingly in Australia, patients have been having good recoveries,” said Greg Fox, an epidemiologist and respiratory physician at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
“Although we sadly have had a number of deaths, the proportion of Australian patients with COVID who’ve died is much lower than has been seen in other countries,” Dr Fox said.
Data from several global studies suggest that around 80 per cent of people will have mild to modera