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The UK’s chief medical officers have warned of a ‘material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed’ in the next 21 days as the mutant Covid strain wreaks havoc across the country. Parts of the health service are under ‘immense pressure’, the chief medical officers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said …

Health officials today warned that people as young as 30 ‘will die from Covid’ as NHS hospitals in the West Country brace for an overspill of critically-ill patients from London under emergency plans. Trusts in London and the south-east at the centre of the UK’s epidemic are preparing to transfer …

T ony Blair has said the entire country needs to be placed under a ramped-up Covid-19 vaccination programme with up to five million jabs a week. His comments on Sunday come as the NHS prepares to roll out the newly approved Oxford University and AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses available …

Liverpool’s council leaders today called for a third national lockdown to contain the new ‘mutant’ strain of Covid and prevent a ‘catastrophe’. The city’s acting mayor, Wendy Simon, and the Labour-run city council’s cabinet say the speed of the rise in coronavirus cases have reached ‘alarming levels’ and urgent action …

Heavily-pregnant university graduate, 22, who was battling Covid woke from nine-day coma to find she had given birth to a baby daughter Mehpara Naqvi was seven months pregnant when she was rushed to hospital 22-year-old developed Covid symptoms in October before struggling to breathe  Medics performed a C-section, during which …

Two of Britain’s busiest hospitals were in crisis on Thursday – with one warning it is on the brink of being able to treat Covid patients only and the other saying it was in ‘disaster medicine mode’.  As the UK declared a record-high 55,892 coronavirus cases and almost 1,000 more deaths, …

Nightingale hospitals in London and across England have been ‘reactivated’ to be ready to admit patients as the capital’s NHS facilities struggle under the pressure of a new wave of coronavirus cases.  The Excel centre site has been readied after laying deserted for months as Britain yesterday recorded 981 Covid …

A Royal Navy nurse who has fought on the front line against Covid-19 has been recognised in the New Year Honours List. Chief Petty Officer Naval Nurse Andrew Cooper has been praised for his efforts testing hundreds of sailors on aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, as well as for his …

V-Day heroine Margaret Keenan has returned to hospital to receive her second dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine after becoming the first person in the world to receive the jab. The grandmother-of-four, from Coventry, was first in line for the vaccine when a mass roll-out began in Britain on December 8. …

Only 28 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated in Nightingale hospitals across England, official data shows amid calls for ministers to use all of the beds in the make-shift facilities. Department of Health statistics show all the patients battling the virus are in Exeter’s 116-bed Nightingale, which is the only one to …