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The coronavirus crisis in hospitals across the UK has stabilised and staff are no longer having to plan for extra capacity, an intensive care doctor has said. But Professor Rupert Pearse from the Intensive Care Society said 2021 is going to be another very hard year and warned of the mental health impact on NHS staff. There are currently nearly 35,000 people in hospitals in the UK and 3,832 patients on ventilators, according to the latest official figures. The second wave has seen bigger numbers of coronavirus patients in hospitals, with 21,684 patients during the peak of the first wave of the pandemic last April. ....
Tony Blair today criticised the EU s short-lived move to override the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland under its vaccine export controls as a very foolish move that jeopardised the peace process. The former prime minister, a vocal supporter of the UK remaining in the bloc, said Brussels action in triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol to control the movement of coronavirus jabs was unacceptable . The EU backtracked on the move, imposed unilaterally as it faces shortfalls on vaccine supplies, after facing universal criticism from London, Dublin and Belfast. Asked if the move was irresponsible, the Labour grandee told Sky s Sophy Ridge on Sunday: Yes, it was a very foolish thing to do and fortunately they withdrew it very quickly. ....
EVERY care home resident has been offered a Covid vaccine but up to 20% of staff have REFUSED - as UK records its highest daily doses at 598,389 bringing number of Britons to have had at least first jab to nearly 9million NHS England says residents at over 10,000 care homes have been offered jab The Government had promised to achieve the milestone by the end of January Nearly 600,000 coronavirus vaccines given in latest batch of official figures Data shows 8,251,146 have now been given in England between Dec 8 and Jan 30 It comes as the number of daily Covid cases and deaths across UK fell in a week ....
Boris s double vaccine victory over the EU: MPs hail PM s Falklands moment as two phone calls to Ursula von der Leyen saw her ditch plans to limit Pfizer jabs to the UK and abandon the nuclear option of a hard border on Northern Ireland Boris Johnson forced EU into double climbdown during late-night intervention The Prime Minister made President Ursula von der Leyen ditch her plans Said actions risked denying millions of pensioners second Pfizer injections She immediately capitulated in tweet sent out shortly before midnight on Friday ....