Covid: Woman's vaccine plea after serious pregnancy illness

A woman who almost died from coronavirus while she was pregnant has urged others to get vaccinated.

Tanviha Quraishi-Akhtar caught Covid before the vaccine was being given to expectant mothers.

She was admitted to the North West's specialist ECMO unit - one of just five in the country - at Wythenshawe Hospital.

"I went through something awful which I never, ever dreamed I would go through... please get vaccinated, protect yourself, your children and your families," the mother-of-two said.

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