A fit and healthy 29-year-old with coronavirus has warned other young people not to think they are immune from the infection.
Daryl Doblados said his lungs still feel like they are “filling up with smoke or liquid” and that he could be left with permanent lung damage after contracting the virus.
He woke up last Thursday morning with a sore throat, shortness of breath and aches all over his body, which quickly developed into a fever that left him shivering.
Within 15 minutes of calling NHS 111, an ambulance arrived at Daryl's home in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, and took him to Addenbrooke's Hospital.