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Medics: 'We are not superheroes, we just do what we can do every day'

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Medics have been taking to social media to share their experiences during the coronavirus pandemic. In Spain, one doctor took to Twitter in tears to explain the difficult choices he had to make working in intensive care.

He spoke about how medics are forced to triage: removing older patients from ventilators or respirators to provide medical support to younger patients instead, as they're more likely to survive Covid-19.

Spain has nearly 4,000 health workers infected with the coronavirus, more than one in 10 of total confirmed cases, officials said today, as the toll rose in Europe's second-worst affected country after Italy.

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