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'Rather die than fight this' - Covid five years on

On 29 January 2020 the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the UK was identified. A few weeks later teenager Marium Zameer was admitted to hospital. Struggling to breathe with Covid and pneumonia, she was put on a ventilator. Medics told her they contemplated putting her into a coma to help her fight Covid in May 2020.

Ms Zameer, from Bradford, survived her hospital ordeal and, as she remembered the loss of her grandad, who died in the ward next to her without her being able to see him, she reflected on her "miraculous second chance at life".

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