An Okotoks, Alberta woman who tested positive for COVID-19 is warning others about the importance of self-isolation. Leah Beingessner left Calgary for Cancun, Mexico on March 2 and returned on a WestJet flight on March 12.
Just one day later, Canada encouraged people not to travel outside the country. The 29-year-old said she first starting feeling unwell on March 4.
She had body pain, stiffness in her neck and knees, which was followed by a chest cold. “I just developed a cough and could not stop coughing throughout the day,” Beingessner said from her home southwest of Calgary. “It lasted about a day or two with the chest pain and the coughy, and the following night I developed a fever. “Trying to self-diagnose myself, I thought maybe I