Love Island 's Dr Alex George has explained what it's like to be working on the NHS frontline amid the coronavirus pandemic.
He opened up on his fears of how health workers will cope if the number of people infected continues to rise, with some staff already working seven days a week.
He also revealed the cleaning process and protective gear that they have to change each time they treat a patient is tripling the time it takes to treat people.
He told The Sun : “I've been testing around eight patients a shift - and the NHS can easily cope with that level, but if we start seeing 50 or 60 a day, the pressure will be on.
"The protective gear we have to wear at the moment adds to the queues at A&E.
"Before seeing each patient I have to put on a gown, fit a mask and visor and double glove as well as the thorough hand-washing routine."
NHS staff have certain protocol for removing their gowns and they have to change their scrubs after every single patient they see, which takes an extra 20 minutes and triples the time spent on each patient.
He said in the hospital he works at, the A&E department on has one isolation room for infectious diseases - and there is only one bed in it.
This means if the number of people infected with coronavirus rises, they will have to quarantine entire wards.
He said it was good that the government has promised more money to help - but they cannot create more staff, and there are frontline staff working seven days a week, which will eventually become unsafe.
He concluded with the worrying warning: "If over the next six months, one in five people have it we can deal with it.
"But if four in five people catch it, the NHS simply can't cope."
The virus has killed 7,500 people globally, 71 in the UK.
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