FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WBAY) – The 1st two scenarios of the coronavirus, in our place, were confirmed a calendar year in the past in Fond du Lac County. A single of the conditions was tied to a group of vacationers who returned from Egypt a week earlier.
For 15 several years Valerie and Wayne Graczyk have been foremost people today on excursions of a life span. Their Egypt River Cruise final year was one particular of people excursions.
In accordance to Valerie Graczyk, “We had expended just a great seven days on the Nile and when we returned we commenced calling each individual other with symptoms.”
Twenty-three folks were being in their team, so Valerie named the Fond du Lac County Wellbeing Division, which was following CDC pointers, to report what was going on. She states, “Because Egypt did not have any conditions and we did not have elevated temperatures, they explained never fret about it. They explained even if we experienced assessments, you would not be examined because Egypt appeared to be a country that didn’t have any instances.”
A 7 days following their return, at least one traveler, Dale Witkowski, had analyzed beneficial for the coronavirus and was hospitalized. He died on March 19th. Wayne Graczyk was hospitalized much too, at some point recovering. All but just one of the river cruise travelers tested favourable, primary to other situations in the neighborhood.
“If we experienced not returned with it, any individual else would have experienced it. It wasn’t like we introduced it, and some individuals in our group felt that you introduced it. No, we didn’t it. It was just there in the earth and it hit Fond du Lac for the reason that of us, but had we not, in my belief, any individual in Milwaukee or Waupaca or someone else would have experienced it,” states Wayne Graczyk.
The Graczyks say the kindness of good friends and neighbors assisted them get as a result of this ordeal. They also leaned on other Egyptian tourists who experienced recovered from the coronavirus as perfectly.
“It was very cathartic in becoming capable to discuss about, specially the reduction of Dale, it was devastating to all of us. And so it was pretty loving how we came collectively and definitely grew to become a assist method to just one an additional,” provides Valerie Graczyk.
It’s taken the pair awhile to be capable to rely on the point they’d be equipped to move ahead, but they are anxious to begin traveling the moment again, before long.
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