It comes as some doctors compared working in the NHS to being in a "warzone", with strict care standards having to be dropped. (Image: Getty Images)The shortage of nurses also means that in some hospitals, including the Royal London, NHS consultants are working shifts as ICU nurses. And the surge in Covid admissions in the nine days since Christmas alone was enough to fill 18 full hospitals, NHS bosses told the Daily Mail. "In England alone, the number of Covid patients has increased by nearly a third in the last week to almost 27,000." "There are almost 9,000 more Covid patients in hospital beds - the equivalent of nearly 18 hospitals - than there was on Christmas Day, just 10 days ago.

Source: Daily Mirror January 05, 2021 06:57 UTC