NEW YORK -- It was not the joyous homecoming Fatehi Darhan had dreamed about while he lay alone for two weeks in a hospital room in Queens, fighting the coronavirus. He came close to death.When he entered his small apartment in the Far Rockaway section of the borough and saw his three young children,
NEW YORK — It was not the joyous homecoming Fatehi Darhan had dreamed about while he lay alone for two weeks in a hospital room in Queens, fighting the coronavirus. He came close to death.
Nearly a month after he became the first Queens resident to test positive for the virus, Darhan is also worried about how long he can pay his monthly bills. He has lost his job as an Uber driver and has no idea what is next. Darhan, an immigrant from Yemen, said he longed to play with his children or to sit close together and watch television. But he cannot escape the fear that remnants of the virus are lingering in his body. So, he talks to them over FaceTime from a different room or several feet apart.
“I never felt anything like this before in my life,” Darhan said, speaking in Arabic through a translator. “I knew this was different. That’s when I thought, maybe it’s coronavirus.” Moira Muntz, a spokeswoman for the New York-based Independent Drivers Guild, which represents more than 80,000 Uber drivers, said ride-hail drivers risked exposure by the nature of their work.
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