Coronavirus: CNN's Richard Quest tests positive, will continue work despite 'nasty cough'
Richard Quest, longtime CNN contributor and host of the network's show "Quest Means Business," announced on air that he has tested positive for coronavirus.
In a clip published Monday, Quest, 58, opened up about his condition and getting tested over the weekend.
"Yep, I've got a positive diagnosis for COVID-19," he said. "I am grateful and thankful that I don't seem to have any of the horrific symptoms of the others. I just have a nasty cough, which, thankfully tonight because of our excellent technical staff, you haven't heard me too much spluttering away."
Quest added that he does not have "any of the awful breathlessness or fatigue" described by others with the virus.
"I'm grateful of course to the enormous support given and all the great medical staff that are helping me get over this," he continued.
Though he understands many viewers may want him to "take it easy," Quest said he will continue his work at CNN until "it all gets too much."
"I'm not a fool, nor am I a hero, but at the moment I feel fine. I feel good, and there are important things that you and I need to talk about every night," he said. "Which is why, as long as I can, and I don't see why not, you and I will still get together at this time and have a good chat about the economic side of what's going on."
Quest isn't the only CNN personality to battle COVID-19.
Chris Cuomo gives update on wife Cristina's coronavirus battle: 'She's stronger than I am'
On March 31, Chris Cuomo, host of "Cuomo Prime Time," announced he tested positive for coronavirus. Since then, the anchor has kept viewers updated in broadcasts from isolation, detailing his latest symptoms, which at times included hallucinations, profuse sweating, headaches, pains in his face and weight loss.
"When the fever spikes you just want to curl up in a ball and stay there for the next six, seven hours and you can't. You've got to bundle up your clothes, you've got to start drowning yourself in fluid," Cuomo said on air earlier this month.
He said he had begun to feel symptoms a few days before officially testing positive and knew "as an essential worker" that he needed to be tested, "because I was in the mix."
"CNN Newsroom" host Brooke Baldwin also announced she tested positive and started feeling symptoms in early April. In a personal essay posted on CNN's website on Sunday, one of a series from CNN's staff about living with and covering the global pandemic, Baldwin opened up about her battle with the virus.
Contributing: Anika Reed, Maria Puente.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Coronavirus: CNN's Richard Quest reveals he tested positive on air
