Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has said his darkest day of the pandemic saw discussions about what would happen if so many people died, they would be unable to be buried. He said that, as well as running out of ventilators, was not a "remote" but a "real possibility".
He described his "darkest hour" in the pandemic in April 2020 : "It's a very particular day and was in the first half of April. I'm trying to work from home because that's what we're asking everybody to do. The weather was beautiful at that time of the year, you know, the sun was shining and it was a spring like day outside. And I find myself in a series of conversations that day about how we would cope if the worst were to happen.
"So it's not that the worst is happening, but it's still could. What would we do if we ran out of ventilators in Wales because at this point we don't have a vaccine, we don't have any preventative treatments and people are falling ill with it, or having very severe breathing problems. The Prime Minister did himself and you know, we know he ended up in intensive care because of exactly that impact and we're relying on ventilators and you can't make them quickly. The question is what advice will we give to a clinician on the front line if you know, if you're there, and there are more patients needing a ventilator than you have ventilators.
