NHS Primary care staff Covid experience with B.1.1.7

Hi everyone. My name is Bhagishree Singh. I work in National Health Services of Britain as a healthcare professional. My work primarily consists of working in different GP practices under two PCN. I particularly spend a long amount of hours in two primary care practices in south-east London, which is probably the most hottest place at the moment for the new variant and I tested positive for COVID last week and it is believed to be the new variant the B.1.1.7 variant and I developed some symptoms on 22nd it which is probably just a flu like flu like symptoms, mild headache, my myalgia and low-grade fever. I got myself tested on 23rd and to my surprise it came the result came as a positive and the reason I'm making this video and I want to convey this message to all the healthcare professionals, all the key workers, all the essential workers that this virus is extremely infectious. It's the transmissibility is supposed to be 60% more than the original one. I'm a I'm a very boring person. I've not seen a shopping complex or a garment shop from last four or five months. My schedule was only from work to home, home to work, and even groceries I used to order online. So I had taken all the precautions. My work colleagues had not seen my face from last four or five months because my face was always covered with face mask. I have always covered my hands with gloves and all sort of different precaution. And I used to offer the maximum face to face clinic for my patient. I had also enrolled in the vaccination process. I was going to deliver tons and tons or hundreds of vaccination this week. When I tested positive, I think more than physically, it was the mental status. I mean, it was mentally daunting because my families are in India, I couldn't inform them. I had to call my practice and inform that I cannot work for at least next week or two. And that's a lot of hours NHS is loaded at the moment. We just had 53,000 cases reported yesterday. And especially with a vaccination where NHS aims to vaccinate one person in every four minutes, that's a lot of hours that my practice had to arrange because of my absences. So the only thing I want to convey to everybody is at the moment this is a national emergency situation. I used to take public transport to commute to work. I used to take tubes, buses, which were extremely crowded last week. Although I had used, I had done my bit, but were people without masks, there were no social distancing, you know the tubes were hugely crowded and that could have been a possibility of me catching the virus. So it's so so important that please please please take individual responsibility, personal responsibility to eradicate the virus, at least to have this virus in control. Please do not go out, we can have our birthdays, our other celebration later on but this virus needs to be taken seriously. Do not go out, do not spread this virus to other people and take maximum precaution. We are halfway through this battle and there's a new ray of hope. We have our AstraZeneca vaccine approved today and fortunately the first virus is supposedly gave like 70% you know protection so we're just we're just there like you know we are close so please please please take extra precaution you know do not go out and let's let's join hand in hand to help the NHS and to help the government to eradicate this virus soon. Thank you.