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Actress Chloe Bennet, 28, revealed that she tested positive for COVID-19 and experienced severe symptoms after waking up on Christmas morning and unable to breathe.
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She revealed the diagnosis on New Year’s Eve in an Instagram story, Entertainment Tonight reported.
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Bennet said in the report that ‘multiple members’ of her family were infected with COVID-19 and encouraged her followers to remain vigilant to prevent the spread of the virus.
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Bennet played Daisy Johnson, also known as Quake, in Marvel’s “Agents of SHIELD”
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“Agents of SHIELD” actress Chloe Bennet has revealed that she has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing severe symptoms.
Bennet, 28, shared the news with her on New Year’s Eve with more than 2.6 million Instagram fans, Entertainment Tonight reported.
“On Christmas morning I wake up with a high fever and can not breathe. I have been tested and I am positive for COVID-19,” Bennet wrote in her Instagram story.
“It has been a difficult week to say the least,” Bennet wrote, adding that “multiple members” of her family were also infected and that they “fought it together”.
Although Bennet assured fans that she was ‘okay’, she encouraged them to remain zealous with the virus and take it seriously.
“I share this because I want to pay attention to anyone who still does not take covid seriously. Please, please, f —— do. Covid sucks. It’s just very difficult,” Bennet wrote.
“I am proud that I stayed healthy, I always wore a mask, took social distance and took all the necessary precautions and still I got VERY sick,” she wrote. “And I’m one of the lucky ones … I’m young, healthy and zealous about my health, and this virus has still let me down and continues to do so.”
Bennet starred as Daisy Johnson, also known as Quake, in Marvel’s “Agents of SHIELD” and appeared in the series from 2013 to 2020. The long-running program aired its final season last season after being canceled, Newsweek reported.
She is one of many celebrities, including Tom Hanks and Pink, who tested positive for COVID-19 this year.
In the United States, the coronavirus has infected more than 19 million people and killed 339,000 people, COVIDTracking reports.
The country recorded more than 3,900 deaths on Wednesday, making it the deadliest day since the coronavirus pandemic began. The United States has begun vaccination, but public health experts are concerned that the next round could wreak havoc on the elderly and needy workers.
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