A university student who thought she had Covid-19 was rushed to hospital with a deadly infection. She was hospitalised within five hours of experiencing symptoms.
Alice Jenkins began complaining of aching limbs and a temperature after waking up on May 18. The 19-year-old assumed her symptoms meant she had caught coronavirus as her flatmates had had it a week earlier.
The Politics, Philosophy and Economics [PPE] student had planned to go clubbing with her friends that evening, but decided to sleep all day instead. Alice had initially thought the muscle pain was because she fell over while playing netball a few days before, but when she woke up from a nap she was sweating and had a rash.
