Exclusive | Coronavirus: leading Hong Kong karate athlete kicks Covid-19 after nearly month-long fight
- Tsang Yee-ting tested positive after returning from a training camp in France, where she was getting ready to qualify for the Olympics
- The two-time Asian Games representative describes exhausting weeks of treatment, but has a message of encouragement for residents
A Hong Kong karate athlete who tested positive for the coronavirus after returning from a training camp in Europe has been discharged following nearly a month of treatment at hospitals in the city. What does she want to do first? Take a hot shower, eat a big hamburger and then go for a run.
Tsang Yee-ting, 27, was excited to learn she could finally go home, but admitted she felt drained by the ordeal. “I was just told by a nurse at 9.30pm that my stool test was negative,” she told the Post on Thursday night. “I will go home to take a shower and then order a burger to fill me up. I will go running the next day.”
But Tsang, a two-time Asian Games representative, added: “I would be lying if I say I haven’t felt down these days, but the key is to face the situation with a positive attitude.”
Tsang and her karate team were at a training camp in France as part of their preparations to qualify for the Games. Originally scheduled to take place in Japan between July and August, the Games have been rescheduled to 2021, due to the pandemic.
“We were supposed to stay in France for training and games till May, but the spread of the pandemic there was so severe that we had no other choice but to return to Hong Kong,” Tsang said.