Catherine Tyldesley has once again claimed coronavirus has been around since last year, after confirming her husband and son tested positive.
The former ‘Coronation Street’ star claimed in April that her significant other Tom Pitfield may have had COVID-19 in November when they were on holiday in Dubai, and she still believes that to be the case after he and their five-year-old son Alfie tested positive for coronavirus antibodies.
She wrote on Instagram: "We have just got our test results back. I thought Tom and Alfie had it in November and nobody quite believed it. It turns out I was right.
"This ugly little b****** of a disease has been flying around longer than we have been told."
In April, the ex-‘Corrie’ actress revealed she thought something strange was going on when someone collapsed on her flight to Dubai, and then Tom and Alfie fell ill.
She said: "We travelled to Dubai in November, and when we were on the flight there was a young chap who collapsed several times.
"He was receiving oxygen from the amazing staff on board. We made it to Dubai and he got whisked away.
"The following morning Tom was in the spare room and he said, ‘I can’t breathe.’ He was wheezing, and he’s never poorly. So I knew something was really wrong.
"He got taken to hospital. They thought initially it was some kind of pneumonia. By day four Alfie’s temperature went up to 40 so we had the paramedics out once again.
"I revealed this on Instagram once the holiday was over, and at least eight people DM’d me and said, ‘I was on that flight, and I got it, or my wife got it, or my child got it.’
"So, for me, I think this has been knocking around probably since September or October, and it’s gradually been building.
"I’ve never seen Tom that poorly and he had every symptom of the coronavirus. Alfie wasn’t as bad, but as we now know it doesn’t tend to affect children as badly, in most cases.
"It’s too much of a coincidence."