NHS workers have shared photos highlighting the grim reality of fighting coronavirus in hospitals as they plead for people to self-isolate.

Natalie Silvey, a doctor working in London, posted a selfie on Twitter on Saturday evening showing her face covered in red marks after wearing her protective mask for nine hours.

Pleading for the public to practice social distancing and isolation, Dr Silvey said: ‘I feel broken – and we are only at the start. Those red/purple marks across my face are from my mask and are deeper than you think. 

‘Today I have seen just what covid19 is doing and now I just want to scream at people to listen to us.

Nurses made similar posts in support showing their blemished and exhausted faces. 

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Emma Sterba said her lunch break gave her a brief opportunity to remove her mask but wrote defiantly: ‘I wouldn’t be doing anything else.’

Another nurse said she wore full personal protective equipment as she works in an intensive therapy unit which recently dealt with a suspected coronavirus case. 

Dr Silvey later described nurses as ‘the real heroes’, adding: ‘Today I saw  just what efforts they are going to and I am truly humbled to work alongside them.

Hundreds of medical workers in the NHS joined doctors and nurses in the US, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Turkey and Germany to post pictures of themselves to social media while holding signs that read: ‘We stay here for you, please stay home for us.’

Meanwhile prime minister Boris Johnson has called on the nation to stay at home and not visit their families this Mother’s Day.

In a stark message to the country he said the NHS was in danger of being ‘overwhelmed’ in the same way Italy’s healthcare system has unless people obey Government advice on ‘social distancing’.

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