"I have to be honest until I felt unwell, I was one of those who although I knew it could be bad, I continued my life pretty much as usual," she explains from a hospital bed.
Leanne Dore was diagnosed with COVID-19 coronavirus this week, joining 198 other people in hospitals around the country, but says she didn't expect the diagnosis.
It didn't start with a fever, or sore throat, like many cases in the media say they do. Leanne says: "I had diarrhea for three days and didn't really feel unwell, so that felt a bit odd.
Then I got a heavy chest and when I lay down I couldn't breathe, just felt scary. A few hours later, I started to feel achy." She visited a clinic where after other tests and she was tested for the virus. "At first they