Young man is detected Covid-19 in flight and decides to quarantine in the bathroom of the plane

A teacher from Michigan (United States) passed five hours locked in the bathroom of the plane in which he was traveling from Chicago to Reykjavik (Iceland) after discovering that he had covid-19 through a quick test that was done during the flight, a television channel reported.

Marisa Fotieo confirmed to NBC News that he decided isolating yourself in the bathroom so as not to endanger other occupants of the Icelandair company plane in which he flew to Iceland on December 20.

The video he recorded with the phone for TikTok from “your VIP quarantine place”Has been reproduced so far more than three million times.

The teacher told the NBC channel that “It was a crazy experience” the one who lived on his trip.

A Fotieo began to sore throat in flight and decided to use one of the rapid covid-19 tests that he carried with him for the trip and go to the bathroom to see the result.

I took her to the bathroom and in what seemed like two seconds, two lines appeared (positive test).

He related in the interview.

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The teacher decided to isolate herself so as not to infect the other people on that flight, which she said were about 150, and managed to stay in the bathroom thanks to the help of an “angel”, la azafata Ragnhildur “Rocky” Eiríksdóttir.

“He made sure I had everything I needed in the next five hours, from food to drink, and was constantly interested in my state and he made sure he was going to be fine, “said Fotieo.

When she arrived in the Icelandic capital, the teacher was quarantined in a hotel operated by the Red Cross, where he spent Christmas.

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Stewardess, who kept in touch with her after the flight via social media, he even sent her flowers and a small Christmas tree so he wouldn’t lose the holiday spirit.

According to provisional figures released this Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO), the world registered 1.35 million infections by covid-19 in the past 24 hours, a daily figure never before seen and that exceeds the previous record by 40%.

This strong increase seems to be associated with the rise of the omicron variant, considerably more contagious than the delta, although the WHO considers it to be the combination of the two the one that is causing the current “tsunami of cases”.

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The current wave is the fourth globally experienced in the pandemic this year, after those that had their peaks in January, April and August, these more associated with variants such as alpha (first detected in UK) or delta (in India).

However, the current wave is the first in 2021 that does not seem to be associated with an increase in deaths from covid-19, which could be linked to the higher vaccination rate in many countries affected by the omicron variant. (I)