Maps Maponyane Shares Chat With A Friend Who Tested Positive For The Corona Virus – Media personality, businessman, model Maps Maponyane came forth to openly reveal his live chat with a friend, content creator Naledi Radebe, who has tested positive for Covid-19.
Maps took to Instagram on the Taking to Instagram Live on Tuesday, 31st of March 2020 to motivate his followers to adhere to the rules and stay indoors and help contain the spread of the Coronavirus.
He created a platform through his social media to depicts how significant for individuals to assist in informing and teaching people, the beloved media personality live-streamed a chat he had with Naledi.
“I am going to be chatting to my friend Ledi, who has tested positive for the coronavirus,” he told his followers. Although she hasn’t left the house in 15 days while under quarantine, Naledi said self-isolation has made her reflect on many things.
“You just have to find things to do … The first week, I was binge-watching Netflix and I was also researching the reports on this disease,” she said.
“It really is being played out in real time, so you’re literally being updated with every step.”
Maps friend Naledi explicated she’s commenced drawing again after 10 years and has completed reading books she had put on hold for a while.
Mr Maponyane initiative is inspired by the need to inform the public who are fretting or lack understanding of the virus. This will play as one of the tools that will help people understand how they can better equip themselves.
Naledi revealed that she initially realised she was infected with the virus following she fell extremely ill.
“Before my first symptom, I feel pretty normal. Just after I got tested, I got a phone call from a friend who I had been with here in SA asking me if I had any symptoms. They said they had been in contact with someone who had Covid-19,” she said.
“I hugged my friend goodbye and went upstairs and I’ve got it since then.”
She realises that the virus can be effortless transmitted.
Now, Maps concluded the chat by clarifying the significance of physical distancing and self-isolation – especially if individuals think they have the symptoms. He also denounced claims that African people are immune to the virus.
“This thing about Africans not contracting the virus is not true. People need to be aware of it. This disease is real.”
