Prof Whitty said: "We now have several hospitals with more inpatients with Covid than we had during the peak in the spring." (Image: xxxxxxxxxxx)Prof Whitty estimated that the number of new infections per day has reached an estimated 50,000 per day. (Image: xxxxxxxxxxx)It comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the UK today passed one million, with a further 326 deaths reported. Nearly 10,000 people are in hospital, latest data shows, while 978 are in ventilator beds. "Doctors and nurses would be forced to choose between saving Covid patients and non-Covid patients.

Source: Daily Mirror October 31, 2020 19:05 UTC