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Matt Hancock says coronavirus felt 'like razors in throat' and he lost half a stone in weight

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Health secretary Matt Hancock has described how it felt to have coronavirus as he returned to work after falling ill last week.

The MP said the illness felt like 'razors in your throat' and he lost half a stone in weight while he was unwell. Mr Hancock said he had begun to go 'downhill' on March 26 and found it 'really worrying' not knowing how bad things might get.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast this morning, he said: “When you’re on the way down it’s really worrying because we can all see just how serious this illness is. “And, for some people, the people who often get into the worst of health and those who lose their lives, it’s often because the lungs over-react to the virus, there’s an immune response. "And you just don’t know if that’s

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