Do Thi Ha: 'I coughed and had a sore throat after coming into contact with F0 at Miss World'
Sharing from Puerto Rico, Do Thi Ha said she had close contact with the Bahamas representative in the past few days. Currently, the Vietnamese beauty has a cough, sore throat and has just had her first negative test result.
On the evening of December 16 (Vietnam time), the Miss World homepage announced that the final round of the contest would be postponed for 90 days due to safety issues, especially after a number of contestants tested positive for nCoV.
At the same time, Vietnamese representative Do Thi Ha livestreamed to share with the audience about her close contact with the Bahamian beauty - also a contestant who contracted Covid-19.
According to Do Thi Ha, she did not share a room with any infected contestants, but there were 4 F0 cases in her rehearsal group. Miss Vietnam 2020 said she had a sore throat and cough for the past few days.
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| Miss Do Thi Ha has a sore throat and cough after close contact with F0. Photo:Do Thi Ha. |
"The representative from Bahamas has been sick for two days but has always tested negative. The result was positive on the third day, today. In the past two days, I have been in contact with her a lot, standing next to her during the performance, joking, hugging and kissing each other," the 20-year-old beauty shared. Do Thi Ha feels lucky to have a negative result for the first time when tested for Covid-19.
In addition, Do Thi Ha revealed that the reigning Miss Tony Ann Singh and Ms. Julia Morley - the chairwoman of the Miss World contest - have both tested positive for nCoV. This is also the reason why the final night of the contest was suddenly postponed right before the event took place.
Sharing more about her feelings after receiving the news of the postponement of the final, Miss Do Thi Ha wrote: "At that time, I just slowly walked back to my room, put down the glass of milk I was holding, and flipped through each photo from when I started preparing for the contest, to the photos of recent days. There was a bit of disappointment, but we didn't cry anymore, because we understood that this was the right thing to do to protect everyone's health."
"As I write these lines, I have just walked out of the dining room where we have so many memories here. Everyone has just said goodbye to each other, because tomorrow each person will board different flights, each person will go to a different place," the Vietnamese representative shared more.
She also shared more about her difficult journey to prepare for Miss World. The Thanh beauty did not have the opportunity to practice directly with experts to prepare for the contest, she had to stay home and study online due to the impact of the epidemic and social distancing.
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| The 20-year-old beauty said her performance group had 4 F0 cases. Photo: Do Thi Ha. |
Do Thi Ha only had one month to complete the work related to the Miss World contest. "Many days my schedule started at 4-5am and ended at 12am. There were many days when I was very tired but I was not discouraged, I told myself to keep trying," she wrote.
Miss Vietnam 2020 also shared more about her first time abroad, the feeling of excitement as well as the difficulties of facing language and cultural differences abroad. She also faced a lot of pressure when competing in Miss World.
Previously, the local news sitePrimera Horanreported that there were 17 Covid-19 cases related to Miss World, including contestants and technical staff. However, the news site did not specifically post the identities of the F0s, only the Indonesian representative was confirmed to have been infected with Covid-19. A representative of Do Thi Ha's management unit in Vietnam said that she will go to the US to rest and wait for a flight back to Vietnam.