A coronavirus survivor has urged people who catch the virus not to panic, saying that for the majority the experience will be "not pleasant, but survivable".
Louise Katz, 51, believes she and her husband Stephen, 56, contracted Covid-19 on holiday in Italy last month. The psychology teacher and doctoral researcher at Derby University had gone with her husband to the Venice Carnival on February 7 for four days.
It was not until later it was announced that Italy had become a hotspot for the virus. Now fully recovered from coronavirus, but still self-isolating at her home in Watford, Herts, she said the couple did “every stupid thing imaginable” after they phoned 111 the first time.