Unvaccinated Covid patient who nearly died in ICU says he is still undecided on getting life-saving jab

AN unvaccinated man who almost died of Covid and remains reliant on an oxygen machine says he is still unsure about getting the life-saving jab.

Despite being confined to an ICU bed in London for more than a week as he struggled to breathe, coronavirus patient Allan has said he does not regret not having the vaccine.

The 38-year-old – who is at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow – told ITV News he "100 per cent" thought he we going to die of Covid.

"The worse moment was thinking am I going to push through because the breathing became difficult," he said,

"When your breathing is struggling, that’s worrying, very worrying.

"When you reach that stage where you don't feel like you're breathing properly, it's an issue."

Allan was on a high dependency unit for a week and on continuous positive airway pressure for 10 days- and remains in hospital.

But he says he is still undecided about getting the jab despite his ongoing ordeal.

Allan said he hadn't received the jab before catching the virus as it was something he was "investigating and considering", and doesn't have any regrets.

"Not saying I regret, but like I said, I have to kind of still just take certain things into proportion and kind of just make the right decision moving forward," he told the outlet.

"You have to do what's right for you.

"What I would say to people is do your investigations and do what you’re comfortable with.

"At the end of the day it’s about protecting yourself respectively and make the decisions for yourself."

LIFE-SAVER

It comes after Public Health England date revealed an estimated 60,000 lives have been saved thanks to coronavirus vaccines.

According to the statistics, some 22million Covid infections have also been prevented because of the jab rollout, with 56,000 hospital admissions swerved.

Meanwhile, promising new data has today shown the UK is now past the peak of the third wave of Covid.

After a rapid rise in cases as Delta spread, and a sudden decline in the past few weeks, Britain appears to be on the way back to calmer Covid waters.

New figures from the ZOE Covid Study app show a significant downturn from the peak seen last month, in the most recent data from five days ago.

Dr Claire Steves, lead scientist and Reader at King’s College London, said: “According to the latest ZOE incidence figures, the number of new daily cases in the UK has finally begun to fall, with a UK R value around 0.9.

"This is the good news the UK has been waiting for but, we mustn’t get ahead of ourselves, this pandemic definitely isn’t over yet as cases remain very high."

According to the latest data from the app, there are currently about 46,905 new daily symptomatic cases in the UK. This is a drop from 60,271 new cases last week.

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