The number of mass vaccination centres at sports stadiums and conference centres will increase sevenfold in the coming weeks under plans being drawn up by the government.
A bus drives past an advertising board reading Stay Home Save Lives in London, Britain, Jan. 10, 2021. (Xinhua/Han Yan)The latest figures brought Britain COVID-
RECKLESS revellers trashed a 500-year-old church during an illegal New Year s Eve rave.
They were among thousands slammed last night by Home Secretary Priti Patel for putting lives at risk by flouting Covid rules.
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The parties came as coronavirus cases continued to spike
Vile yobs targeted cops who tried to break up their party at the disused All Saints Church near Basildon, Essex.
They launched drinks and ice cubes at officers, told them to f off and chanted as they caused £1,000 in damage.
The yobs barricaded a door to stop cops from getting in while music blared.
Share This is certainly not about jumping the queue in front of the most vulnerable members of society or those on the NHS frontline.
John Apter, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales It s about ensuring policing is resilient enough to cope with the demands of the pandemic and that my colleagues can continue to support the public during these exceptional times.
Mr Apter said he had lobbied the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) over the issue and it had been raised directly with the Government but no decision has been made.
He called for Boris Johnson to make a decision immediately. In a letter to NPCC chairman Martin Hewitt, Mr Apter said: If we expect police officers to continue to police in the way that we do then it s essential they are given the protection they deserve.
He told The Telegraph: “We are seeing elderly people who have fallen waiting five or six hours for an ambulance simply because there aren’t any available and the higher grade respiratory problems and chest problems get a higher priority.”
The crisis is particularly acute in London where the capital’s busiest facility, the Royal London Hospital, has only one nurse for every three Covid patients being treated in intensive care, leaked correspondence shows.
The facility in east London has reached “disaster medicine mode” and is no longer able to provide adequate critical care, according to management.
In an email sent last night, critical care staff were told: “We are now in disaster medicine mode. We are no longer providing high standard critical care, because we cannot.