A pastor who spent a week fighting for his life after contracting coronavirus issued a stark warning about the disease from his hospital bed.
Dad-of-three Mark McClurg, 40, from County Down in Northern Ireland, begged people to observe social distancing rules to save lives.
In a video recorded from his hospital bed, he warned: "This coronavirus is deadly and is dangerous. " Coronavirus wants to kill you, it wants to take all the life out of your lungs so you can't even breathe. "I'm grateful I'm alive today." He heaped praise on NHS staff who had saved his life, saying many of them had accepted that they were going to be infected themselves.