We might have the reason why Queen Elizabeth has tried to minimize her assistance to public events after she tested positive for covid-19. The illness left her exhausted, or so she said during a recent virtual gathering.
The monarch, who participated in a virtual hospital visit, shared her experience with covid-19 with a former patient, whose father and brother died from the virus.
During her exchange of experience, the Queen said: “It [Covid] does leave one very tired and exhausted, doesn’t it?”
She also talked about how hard it was to cope with the illness without being able to see family members. “It obviously was a very frightening experience,” she said.
The call to the Royal London Hospital, an institution the Queen has been a patron for years, marked the official opening of its Queen Elizabeth Unit.
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Buckingham Palace announce last February that the Queen had contracted the virus and said she was experiencing “mild cold-like symptoms”. Since the diagnosis, the monarch has avoided most public engagements, aside from Prince Philip’s memorial service held last month.
A unit in honor of the Queen
The Queen Elizabeth Unit was built in five weeks to meet the demand for covid patients and since then, about 800 people from across north-east London have been treated, according to the BBC.
The Queen also spoke with some of the hospital staff about how they managed and cope with the covid patients’ influx and recognized their hard labor.
Mireia Lopez Rey Ferrer, who has worked at the hospital in Whitechapel, east London, since 2008, told the Queen: “As nurses, we made sure that they were not alone.
“We held their hands, we wiped their tears and we provided comfort. It felt at times that we were running a marathon with no finish line.”
