This is the story of Mariana Arceo, the first Mexican to recover from COVID-19

COVID-19 has caused thousands of deaths in Europe, Asa and now it begins to affect Latin America, but among the thousands of cases of infected people, There are patients who have already successfully recovered and one of them is the Mexican Mariana Arceo, Pan American champion.

Mariana contracted COVID-19 during her stay in a preparation camp in Barcelona, ​​Spain, which is now one of the countries most affected by the viral pandemic. The athlete was with her sights set on the Tokyo Olympics, which until then remained standing and have now been moved to 2021.

The symptoms appeared almost immediately after his return to Mexico, however it never crossed his mind that the fever and discomfort were due to the coronavirus Instead, he thought it was excessive wear and tear as a result of the high activity and pressure he put on his body in training. For this reason, he went to the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) when he was informed that he had tested positive for COVID-19.

Symptoms worsened rapidly, from fevers to pneumonia, after which medical care had to be intensified. On how his illness developed, he said that “personally I took the necessary security measures and still was infected, but I want you to know that this is true, This is not a game or a joke. You live very badly on this side. "

After a long period of hospitalization, Arcea managed to recover from the coronavirus and was discharged yesterday, becoming the first Mexican to recover from the disease. that so far claimed the lives of around 24,000 people and infected over 500,000 people worldwide.

Mariana emphasized, above all, that the challenge posed by the coronavirus is mental and physical resistance and that is something that is very clear to her:

“I never imagined that it would happen to me and it happened to me. My life at times did not have many things in favor and now I can say: I am the first Mexican to regain health after this, I am proud because it was a very difficult fight physically and mentally. ” said the Pan American champion.

"I want to tell everyone not to turn off, that we are going to continue working hard and that we must know how to listen to our bodies", concluded Mariana Arcea in the video published on the Instagram social network.

The coronavirus continues to advance in Mexico, as reported by the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, since there are around 585 confirmed cases, 192 cases were infections that happened in other countries and so far there are eight deaths. Undersecretary Gatell said it is important to stay home, and keep the "healthy distance" but acknowledged that stage three contagion is imminent.

"Phase three is going to happen, there is no doubt (…) but the big difference is that with the measures of the National Day of Healthy Distance (…) instead of having a large epidemic curve, we are going to have a smaller one that allows caring for sick people and especially for critically ill people, ”said Hugo López-Gatell at a conference this afternoon.

For the moment, the quarantine is expected to last until the third week of April, while the number of those infected continues to rise.

The panic that the coronavirus has caused in Mexico caused some people to buy medications such as hydroxychloroquine, which serves to help lupus sufferers, and as reported by the authorities, it has not been proven to have the ability to cure the virus. This type of purchase affected the supply to patients who do require treatment.