Queen Elizabeth is opening up about her experience with COVID-19. During a video car with staff at an east London hospital on Wednesday (April 11), the 95-year-old monarch described being “very tired and exhausted” after contracting the virus back in February. Click inside to read more… CNN writes that speaking with former COVID patient Asef Hussain, the Queen said: “I’m glad that you’re getting better…It does leave one very tired and exhausted, doesn’t it?
This horrible pandemic. It’s not a nice result.” According to the outlet, Asef‘s brother and father both died from the illness.
He was the third member of his family to be hospitalized after becoming ill in December 2020. “I remember waking up one morning and just finding it really, really difficult to breathe,” he told the Queen.
She also spoke with the construction team, who had completed the 155-bed Queen Elizabeth Unit on two of the hospital’s floors in five weeks, rather than the typical five months. “It is very interesting, isn’t it, when there is some very vital thing, how everybody works together and pulls together?