Claudia Waitsman contracted Covid at Joh Bailey’s hair salon last month and initially had no symptoms – then everything changed.
The Eastern Suburbs woman picked up the virus during a trip to Joh Bailey’s hair salon, in Double Bay when the Deltra strain outbreak began on June 16.Cleaners sanitising public benches and bus stops along the main road in Bondi Beach. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard“I had been to the hairdressers on the Saturday, then I was told on the Wednesday I had to get a test and isolate. I started to get a headache on Wednesday evening but didn’t think it was related,” she said.
“Once it hit I had shortness of breath, my body aching, that kind of agony, a headache. It was similar to the flu or glandular fever. I lost my sense of taste and smell which I still don’t have back almost a month later.” Of those hospitalised, 18 in ICU and four on ventilators, with just under a third of the patients aged under 55.
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