LONDON --
Queen Elizabeth stated COVID-19 had left "one very drained and exhausted" as she talked to well being staff and a former affected person about her personal expertise of "this horrible pandemic."
The 95-year-old monarch examined constructive for COVID in February and was described as having had gentle, cold-like signs. She later returned to mild duties.
The queen, who's patron of the Royal London Hospital, spoke on a video name to Nationwide Well being Service staff on the hospital who had helped to construct and run a 155-bed unit to deal with a surge in sufferers needing assist with their respiratory.
Her dialog with employees got here as she marked the official opening of the hospital's Queen Elizabeth Unit.
"It is wonderful, is not it, what may be finished, when wants be?" she stated in feedback launched by Buckingham Palace late on Sunday.
The queen additionally spoke to Asef Hussain, who had been critically unwell with COVID-19 and who misplaced relations to the virus. "It does depart one very drained and exhausted does not it, this horrible pandemic?" she stated to him.
The queen requested how the sufferers had coped with out with the ability to see relations. "It clearly was a really scary expertise," she stated.
Elizabeth, who turns 96 later this month, has reduce on engagements since being hospitalized for an evening final October for an unspecified sickness.
(Reporting by Kate Holton enhancing by William Schomberg)
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