Singapore’s Minister of Defence Ng Eng Hen said on 16 February that he rated his recent Covid-19 infection as 5 out of 10, comparing it to other flu that he had gone through over the last 20 to 30 years.
Ng was speaking at the National Museum of Singapore where he was visiting a World War 2 exhibition.
Ng had tested positive on an ART test on 4 February and he said that the world symptoms that he had during his Covid infection were a really bad sore throat as well as a high fever on the 2nd and 3rd day.
He said that by the 6th or 7th day, he was bouncing back and had already gone on back to his exercise regime, revealing that his run timings at the moment are similar to before his infection.
Ng then gave advice for those who have been infected with Covid-129 recently, telling them to “listen to what your mother and what your wife says. Whatever tonics they want to give you, just accept it willingly and hope it works”‘.
He then added that apparently soups and lozenges help with the symptoms.
Ng said that if he had gotten the original wild type two years ago, or even Delta, he would’ve been worried; and that he feels the vaccinations and booster jabs have made an illness that is otherwise life-threatening, a manageable and mild one.