Coronavirus may never go away, a Royal Bolton Hospital chief has warned. More waves of COVID-19 are expected and the virus could enter a “flu cycle”, the board of directors at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has been told.
Chief operating officer Andy Ennis also spoke of a North-South divide as he revealed the trust’s plans for the next phase of the crisis on Wednesday.
He said: “We are preparing for the next stage. It may not be as big a peak, but we will still get a surge of COVID. I expect this to last at least a year. “COVID will probably never go away now.
What we don’t know is if it will become a flu cycle. “We are estimating that that’s likely but so much of this depends on policy which is dictated from the South and the North is very