Wales' Health Minister has urged everyone to watch a message from a doctor who is warning that "completely fit and well people are becoming really sick with Covid."
Vaughan Gething shared a clip of Dr Bethan Gibson from the Royal Glamorgan Hospital warning that they are seeing people in their 20s in the intensive care unit.
Mr Gething said: "If you didn't see Bethan Gibson yesterday please take a minute of your time to watch this. Please stay at home and do the right thing. The pandemic is far from over."
In the emotional clip, Dr Gibson describes how she has cried far more tears in recent months than her entire career.
She also described how before the pandemic, around 20% of intensive care patients would die, and now that figure is over 50%.
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Dr Gibson told the BBC: "I've shed more tears this year than I have in my whole medical career. What we are used to on intensive care is looking after sick patients mostly of an older generation, mostly with some comorbidities and we're used to losing about 20% of our patients.
"So that's our normal. Covid has completely changed this. Every day is a really busy day so there's no real downtime or time to catch up.
"Our patients' age ranges are far towards the younger age. So we're having twenties to the older age group and we are having patients with no comorbidities, completely fit and well people who are becoming really sick with Covid.
"And the hardest bit now is we are losing over half our patients. One bit I've personally really struggled with is that our patients, usually if they are sick and need intensive care they're barely conscious. So it's a patient who's got an illness that we need to get better.
"With Covid, for some reason and I don't understand, these patients, their numbers are really really sick, they're really hypoxic, you're scared they're going to arrest they're so hypoxic, and yet they're fully awake.
"They're not really in distress. They're able to talk to you. We encourage them to phone members of their family but they are now acutely aware of how sick they are and that by going on a ventilator, they may not make it."
