A BARMERA woman who tested positive for coronavirus has called for Riverlanders to take government guidelines about social distancing seriously as the virus continues to spread.
Sandy Todd, whose husband Malcolm is in a critical condition in the intensive care unit of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, said people need to “realise everyone is at risk”.
“When it happens to you it’s shattering,” she said.
“It really concerns me that there’s so many people who think ‘I’ll just do this or it doesn’t apply to me’, but that’s not the case – it applies to everyone.
“It could end up them that’s sick or their parents or their grandparents.”
Mrs Todd and her husband caught the virus in the Barossa Valley, where they were meeting up with their son who was visiting the region with a Swiss tour group.
The two are part of a cluster of at least 34 confirmed cases originating within the Barossa region.
Mrs Todd said although she thought most people were taking the threat of coronavirus seriously, “quite a lot still aren’t”.
“It only takes one person,” she said.
“One person that we met up with in the Barossa Valley – the driver of the tour bus who they’ve tracked it back to, not that it was his fault he didn’t know – but he had been carting people from one of the cruise ships, taking them on a tour before he did the tour with my son’s group from Switzerland.
“Most of the people on his bus got sick after they went back to Switzerland, my son in Switzerland has been really sick.
“I haven’t been as sick as some of the others, although I have been sick, but I’m faced with losing my husband, and that is just from one person.
“It’s just a terrible thing and people need to realise that everyone is at risk.”