Health
Hospitals make desperate plea for staff as new coronavirus strain spreads ‘like wildfire’ – The Independent
Two major London hospitals warn they lack the staff to look after patients with one describing it as ‘disaster medicine mode’
The new coronavirus variant is “spreading like wildfire” in the northwest of England as cases continue to rise across the country, piling further pressure on the struggling NHS.
The more infectious strain was responsible for the dramatic increase in positive cases across the southeast in the weeks before Christmas. Now it has been identified in a spike in Cumbria, according to Public Health England.
The region’s director of public health, Colin Cox, said infections were “rocketing” as the variant…
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