A healthy, gym-going woman has warned 'not to take any chances' in catching the coronavirus after she was hospitalised with pneumonia.
Tara Jane Langston, 39, filmed the message from an intensive care unit at Hillingdon Hospital in west London where she was admitted last Friday and tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.
The mother-of-two made the clip for her work colleagues and it has since gone viral. During the clip she describes the horrifying experience of being treated for pneumonia.
She said: "I'm in the intensive care unit and I can't breathe without this. They've had to sew that into my artery. "I've got a cannula, another cannula and a catheter.