Sign up for the MyWigan newsletter for the biggest stories direct to your inbox A man has told how he is 'kicking himself' for not urging a friend who died from covid to get vaccinated.
Carl Pennington, from Skelmersdale, near Wigan, was put on a ventilator at hospital on Monday, August 9, and died just 30 minutes after being placed on the machine, the Liverpool Echo reports.
The 41-year-old 'didn't know" he had coronavirus before he began complaining he couldn't breath, according to close friend Jamie Williamson.
Carl spent a total of 10 days in Southport Hospital after testing positive, with family telling Jamie his condition had 'started improving'. READ MORE: Man, 37, breached restraining order and turned up at his ex-girlfriend's
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