Covid: Number of patients on ventilators passes 4,000 for first time
Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.
Read MoreCovid: Gap between Pfizer vaccine doses should be halved, say doctors
Delaying second Pfizer doses to give more people their first is “difficult to justify”, says BMA.
Read MoreCovid-19: Nurses call for better masks to protect all staff
Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.
Read MoreInfection level ‘very, very high’ and ‘extremely precarious’ – Prof Whitty
The chief medical officer warns that in some ages groups Covid cases may still be going up.
Read MoreNew UK Covid variant death risk put into context by Sir Patrick Vallance
The UK chief scientific adviser says data suggests a higher death rate among those infected with the new variant.
Read MoreNew UK variant ‘may be more deadly’
Emerging evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as spread faster.
Read MoreCoronavirus: UK R number ‘between 0.8 and 1’
But the proportion of cases apparently caused by the new variant appear to be rising in most of the UK.
Read MoreCovid R rate: What is the R number and why does it matter?
Health experts keep discussing the value of R, but what is it and why does it matter?
Read More‘Record number’ of Covid intensive care patients transferred
Around one in 10 patients admitted to intensive care is now being sent to a different hospital.
Read MoreTikTok: GP posts videos to tackle vaccine fake news
Dr Nighat Araf records messages in Urdu and Punjabi, urging people to trust the Covid jab.
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