These harrowing images reveal the frontline of the coronavirus fight as patients lay motionless in hospital while hooked up to ventilators and other machines.
They were taken at Bordeaux University Hospital in south-western France, where doctors and nurses have been battling to save the lives of Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Two patients have died at the hospital since the outbreak began and the ICU is at full capacity with almost 30 patients suffering from severe symptoms.
Doctors and nurses are trying to avoid becoming infected themselves as France experiences one of the highest infection totals and deaths tolls in the world.
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