Boris Johnson is under pressure to re-introduce covid restrictions to prevent the NHS stumbling into a winter crisis.The chief executive of the NHS Confederation in England has called on the Government to bring back Covid restrictions abandoned by the Tory leader to protect hospitals from the rising number of covid cases.
While measures like the mandatory use of face masks and working from home were kept by the Scottish government when lockdown ended they have been dropped in England where the UK government has responsibility for health.
UK-wide the number of new daily covid cases has been over 40,000 for the last week, with 43,738 new infections reported on Tuesday with another 223 deaths recorded, the highest since March.