A CYSTIC fibrosis sufferer who tested positive for coronavirus has shared a message of hope after beating the disease.

Daniel James-Lacey McInerney, 21, said he was "absolutely terrified" after contracting Covid-19 and feared that he was going to die.

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4 Daniel James-Lacey McInerney said he was 'absolutely terrified' after being diagnosed with Covid-19 Credit: Mirrorpix

4 The brave 21-year-old shared a message of hope after recovering from coronavirus Credit: Mirrorpix

But after two weeks of hospital treatment and home quarantine, he has finally beaten the virus.

He told the Daily Express: "I know the 'at risk' vulnerable people in the UK are scared of what is going on, but I want to give them some hope.

"I have no idea at all how I caught coronavirus, where I caught it or why, but I have faced it and fought it off.

"If someone with lungs working at only 25 per cent, weakened by cystic fibrosis can shake off Covid-19 I feel confident many more people can."

I know the 'at risk' vulnerable people in the UK are scared of what is going on, but I want to give them some hope Daniel James-Lacey McInerney

Daniel, of Camden, north London, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) when he was just four-years-old.

He recalled that on March 5, after feeling run-down and chesty, he contacted his CF unit.

The 21-year-old was already self-isolating at home because having CF as an underlying condition put him in one of the "at risk" groups.

On March 9 he got a bed at St Bartholomew's, but on March 10 he woke up with terrible flu symptoms.

4 His cystic fibrosis condition put him in one of the 'at risk' groups Credit: Facebook

4 He beat the virus after two weeks of hospital treatments Credit: Facebook

He was then tested for Covid-19 and given the news that he had contracted the deadly disease.

Daniel added how he thought he was "going to die" during his time in hospital.

"In the room next to me in the ICU, I could hear an elderly man in his 70s on a ventilator due to Covid-19 — it broke my heart," concluded Daniel.

"I had survivors' guilt and requested to be moved from the ICU as others worse off than me needed them."

Sections of the hospital were cordoned off as he was taken home in a special ambulance being used in London just for coronavirus patients.

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