Dubai: Covid-infected frontliner strikes Dh50,000 gold

Dubai - 'I contracted the virus early in January while serving as Covid ward nurse'

ICU nurse Kitty Markose literally struck gold, winning Dh50,000 worth of gold at the Dubai Shopping Festival jewellery campaign earlier this week. She called it ‘the best birthday present’ of her life as she learnt the news just a day after her birthday.

“This year didn’t start on a very good note for me as I contracted the virus early in January while serving as Covid ward nurse. But thankfully, by the grace of God, I recovered in a couple of weeks and since my birthday was approaching, my husband decided to uplift my mood and took me gold shopping,” Kitty recalled.

“My husband Rijo spent Dh3,200 and bought me a gold chain and bracelet and I was very happy about it. As we were about to leave the shop, we were handed six raffle tickets. I filled it up in a hurry and left but little did I know, those would prove so lucky for me,” she told Khaleej Times.

The couple said they couldn’t believe their ears, when two days later, they received a call saying they had won 250gm of gold in the draw for the Dubai Gold and Jewellery Group’s (DGJG) ‘non-stop winning’ jewellery campaign.