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Michael Hussey opens up about his battle against Covid-19
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Follow UsChennai Super Kings played their first five games in Mumbai before moving to New Delhi as a part of the bubble transfer
When the Indian Premier League came to an abject halt on May 4 with a host of players testing positive, the most worried of them all are the Aussies with the border completely shut for everyone coming from India. Even though other members were airlifted to the Maldives, Michael Hussey had to be confined to a hotel room after having been tested positive for the virus.
He has recovered well from it and landed in Australia via a commercial flight from Doha, where he had to go through another 14 days of quarantine according to Australia's federal government rules. During the managed isolation, Hussey detailed his battle against the virus.
“I wasn’t thinking about (getting home) too much to start with,” he told foxsports.com.au on Tuesday. “I was focusing on just trying to get better again, really.”
“My initial test came up as a weak positive, and we were sort of hoping the next would be negative and it’d be alright, but unfortunately I got retested the next day and that came back positive,” he said.
“To be honest, I had already started feeling some of the symptoms and so I was thinking, ‘I’m pretty sure I’ve got it’. Plus I was sitting next to the bowling coach on the bus a few times, so I thought, ‘If he’s got it then there’s a pretty good chance I’ve got it as well’.”
Chennai Super Kings played their first five games in Mumbai before moving to New Delhi as a part of the bubble transfer. Although it's exactly unclear where Hussey contracted the virus but he presumes that moving the competition to Delhi exposed participants to a far greater health risk.
“So there was a risk there,” Hussey said, adding: “It (also) could have been at the ground; there was ground staff while we were there training and on game day. There was certainly more risk once we left that Mumbai bubble.”
“I was a bit like, ‘Oh gosh, why me’, but I didn’t really think too much at all. I thought it was a bit of a shame. But I certainly wasn’t worried about my breathing or things like that,” he added. “It was just a bit annoying, really."