A Basildon nurse has pleaded with people to stay at home to ensure the NHS can handle the added pressure of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a video appeal shared more than 5,000 times across Facebook, Basildon Hospital operating theatre nurse Shirley Watts said "we're on our knees."
She posted the video after a long shift in the ICU treating patients with coronavirus.
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