Boris s lockdown D-Day: PM will decide TODAY whether to plunge ALL of England back into full lockdown – potentially for MONTHS – after Keir Starmer demanded tougher restrictions to stop out of control mutant Covid virus
Boris Johnson will decide whether to introduce stricter measures as he faces calls to bring in a lockdown
PM warned curbs were probably about to get tougher - and said he was considering further school closures
Cabinet sources said they expected the Government s Covid-O committee, which makes decisions on lockdown restrictions, would meet on Monday to decide on the next steps to take
Patients left in corridors as Covid pressure leaves ICUs short of space and oxygen
Warning of rising crisis as desperate medics urge public to socially distance after pictures of revellers mixing on New Year s Eve
2 January 2021 • 8:30pm
A patient is transported from an ambulance at the Royal London Hospital by medics wearing personal protective equipment
Credit: Hollie Adams/ Getty Images Europe
Responding to pictures of revellers mixing in some parts of the country together on New Year s Eve, medics urged everyone to follow social distancing measures in order to avoid unknowingly infecting others.
The message came as one nurse revealed that resources are so stretched that a patient ran out of oxygen as hospitals struggle to cope with a surge in infections.
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What does one million square feet of empty space look like? Anyone who stepped inside the NHS Nightingale Hospital in East London yesterday will know only too well.
The facility, constructed under military supervision inside the ExCel conference centre in April, is no longer there; no equipment, no staff and certainly no patients.
‘It’s closing down,’ a security guard told us.
Even without venturing through the entrance, that much was obvious. An NHS road sign initially erected to direct ambulances arriving at the site could be seen lying beside a wall, and dozens of partition walls some with NHS labels attached were dumped in a storage pen.