Popular Mombasa based music promoter and businessman Musa Babaz has come out to share his experience with the novel coronavirus.

In an interview with pwani Fm's Gates Mgenge, Musa Babaz narrated how he spent over 10 days in intensive care unit (ICU) at the Nairobi hospital.

"This disease is real. Its a very bad disease. I started with loss of appetite, fever and i decided to go to hospital where the doctor advised me to go and test for corona virus, the results came after two days and I was positive'' said Babaz.

"I'm diabetic and also suffer from high blood pressure so it hit me really hard and affected by lungs and kidney" he added.

Musa Babaz revealed how he started treating the disease using traditional remedies like ginger, lemon and honey only for things to get worse

"Things got worse two days after using this traditional method, I collapsed at my apartment and later found myself at Nairobi hospital,  I was later transferred to the ICU where i spent 12 days. Ispent close to 1.8 million treating this disease " 

He is currently recovering at home, where he is in quarantine.

"I have witnessed people dying out of this virus, lets be careful and take all the precautions."