A 28-year-old struggling to breath and a young headteacher with cancer are two of the people in hospital in the North West with Covid-19.
In the past month the number of Covid-19 hospital admissions in the region has soared. The North West NHS region is treating 1,100 Covid-19 patients, of which 221 are in intensive care or specialist infectious disease units.
Across the country there are now more coronavirus patients receiving hospital care - 3,451 on October 11 - than there were on March 23, when the first lockdown was triggered. Do you have a coronavirus story to share?
Email [email protected] Video from the inside of Warrington Hospital's intensive care unit quickly dispels one of the coronavirus myths - that young people seldom fall