George Alagiah lives with "uncertainty all the time" amid his cancer battle.
George Alagiah
The 64-year-old newsreader revealed earlier this month that cancer has spread to his lungs, but George feels his ongoing health woes actually helped him to cope with being struck down with coronavirus.
George - who was diagnosed with the disease earlier in the summer - shared: "I'm good as far as Covid-19 is concerned.
"I had it mildly but my wife, she got it quite badly. She didn't have to go to hospital or anything but she had the aches, the loss of her sense of taste and smell ... all of the symptoms really.
"With my case, I had a fever for a few days and then it was into recovery."
George thinks his long-running cancer battle helped him to contend with the stresses of coronavirus.
But the BBC newsreader confessed to constantly living with uncertainty due to his health history.
George - who was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014 - told 'Good Morning Britain': "I can only speak for myself but I suspect as with most people living with cancer you live with uncertainty all the time.
"You go from scan to scan every three months and you never know what that can turn up. In that sense I found it put the Covid business into perspective.
"Mentally it didn't worry me as much as you might imagine."
George was recently informed by doctors that his cancer has spread to "a third organ".
However, his condition has not yet been described as "terminal".
He previously shared: "My doctors have never used the word 'chronic' or 'cure' about my cancer. They've never used the word 'terminal' either.
"I've always said to my oncologist, 'Tell me when I need to sort my affairs out', and he's not told me that, but what he did tell me is that the cancer is now in a third organ. It is in my lungs."