A mum who was put into a coma after getting coronavirus thought hospital staff were aliens when she came round. Ruth Andrew, from St Leonards in Hastings, East Sussex, woke up after six days to see staff treating her in hazmat suits, before realising she was in intensive care.
The 36-year-old's condition had at one point been so serious she was told to say goodbye to her husband Craig and children Imogen, 14 and Daniel, 10.
As she watched four other patients die, she even asked nurses if she was next. Thankfully, she is now the first patient with the deadly virus to be discharged from the ICU unit at the Conquest Hospital in Hastings. For the latest on the coronavirus pandemic, read our liveblog here The civil servant, who was also