Omani COVID-19 survivor recounts devastating loss of his father to the virus

Merge 104.8  |  06 July 2020

As Ammar Al Wahabi was fighting COVID-19 from his hospital bed in Muscat, he could not have fathomed that the hardest challenge would still lie ahead — coping with the devastating loss of his father to the novel coronavirus and the overwhelming grief that would that would accompany him along his own road to recovery.

Click below to hear Ammar as he recounts his powerful story, and the message he has to those who flout COVID-19 precautions.

(Also read: “It’s time to name and shame,” says Oman’s Minister of Health on repeat COVID-19 violators.)