A woman who fell ill with the coronavirus on Friday 13 has described horror symptoms including feeling like “her body has been on fire” and a throat so sore she felt like she “had swallowed glass”.
And Mandy Charlton warns that while the hard-pressed NHS staff were still just about coping with the incredible workload “in a few weeks they won't be”.
Mandy, 46, was admitted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle via ambulance on Friday evening temperature of more than 38C.
The mum-of-three claimed that while she was admitted to the hospital's coronavirus isolation unit upon arrival, she was “shocked” to see the porters pushing her bed to a scan weren't being given face masks.
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