A healthcare worker who spent 68 days in intensive care due to Covid-19 has warned the "disease does not care that you are young, fit and healthy".
Speaking at the Department of Health's briefing this evening, Jerick Martin said he is "very grateful to be alive" and added he wants people to realise the effect the virus can have on them.
He said: "It does not care that you have a family who love you and who are waiting for you to come home. "Anyone can catch it, and anyone can become very sick." Mr Martin, who is in his 30s, was hospitalised in Beaumont five days after testing positive for the virus.
He spent most of his time in ICU on a ventilator and in an induced coma. Mr Martin said: "I was told by my doctor that I would be in the