A pastor in Northern Ireland left struggling to breathe by coronavirus said it had sucked the life out of his lungs. Mark McClurg, from Co Down, has been in the intensive care unit at the Ulster Hospital near Belfast for a week but will soon be moving back to a ward.
The married father-of-three posted a set of videos on Twitter from his hospital bed using breathing support. He said: "This coronavirus is deadly and is dangerous. "Coronavirus wants to kill you. "It wants to take all the life out of your lungs so that you cannot even breathe." Mr McClurg is part of the Elim Pentecostal Church.
He said he is grateful to be alive, and added that nurses and doctors had cared for him night and day despite the risk to their own health. "They have