Last July, Guillaume, 24, contracted a severe form of the coronavirus and missed out on "death".

Three months later, he testifies at the microphone of Europe 1 of the dangerousness of this virus and calls for a collective awareness of the French. 

TESTIMONY

It all started with a simple dinner last July.

This is where Guillaume, 24, contracted the coronavirus.

For the first four weeks, he has only a few mild symptoms, before starting to feel unwell.

Severe migraines, dizziness, strong chest pains ... He decides to go back to the emergency room and is diagnosed with inflammation of the muscle tissue of the heart (myocarditis) and major lesions in the lungs.

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"It doesn't just happen to others"

Placed in intensive care for five days, he underwent heavy treatment and still has significant sequelae from this episode.

At the microphone of Europe 1 Wednesday, a few hours before a new speech by Emmanuel Macron during which he should announce a new confinement, according to information from Europe 1, he calls for an awareness of the dangerousness of the Covid- 19.

"It doesn't just happen to others."

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"My whole life has changed"

“Before I had the Covid, and even when I had it, I heard about people who developed pathologies, but these were testimonials from people who said they were tired. It made me laugh a bit. , because I said to myself that they should sleep a little, quite simply "explains the young man.

But today, he has completely revised his judgment: "I see concretely what this fatigue is, it has still not left me."

Now subject to sleep problems, Guillaume is also completely prohibited from performing any physical exertion for six months.

"My whole life has changed because of the Covid-19", he sums up.

"I missed death from the Covid"

While the fines for not respecting the curfew have exploded this weekend, as Europe 1 revealed to you, Guillaume insists: "It does not happen only to others, we need awareness! stopped evenings at ten or fifteen, I try to limit social interactions ... I am 24 years old, I am in good health, and I have been near death from the Covid. Tomorrow it may be -to be you."

And if he admits that at the dawn of a new turn of the screw, he does not find it "very pleasant", he argues that "it is a lesser evil if one wants to stay alive".