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Wikoria, 15, wasn't tested for coronavirus, but given her strong symptoms, and the fact that three members of her household tested positive, makes her feel sure she too got the virus.

I was trying to write this story multiple times, but something never felt right. How can you imagine how a person who has coronavirus feels?

How do you think a person who has it feels, after you hear that another person has died? After all it's just a number which rises higher each day, but what happens when you yourself are included into the group of people who have been infected?

I can only speak of how I felt having coronavirus and fighting this invisible villain which has killed and infected so many.

I felt resentment, symptoms arise and you still say to yourself it's nothing, I'll be alright. Maybe because it's so scary we don't want to face it? But resentment can't, and didn't, last forever.

I slowly took in the truth of what I was dealing with. Loss of taste, headaches, chest pains, a sore throat and a cough were my main symptoms. I did not take the test for coronavirus, but my mum, sister and brother-in-law, who I live with and are key workers did, and they all tested positive.

I saw it all: The tents, the masks, the swabs, and the terrified faces.

You know what's the biggest thing there is to face when you have coronavirus? The people. They are scared, they look at you differently. But I was scared too.

Saying I have coronavirus to myself was terrifying, saying it to others, for the world to know, was petrifying. All of those questions: How? Why? When?

After a month I can say that I know the answers to questions I wasn't ready to answer. I'm thankful for the experience because normally I like being in control of every situation, and then suddenly I was in a scenario I had no control over. This has helped me realise that it is okay to not have everything under control.

I'm healthy. All of us are now healthy.