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Doctors fighting coronavirus will be 'given manual to decide who lives or dies'

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Doctors rushed off their feet with a surge of coronavirus patients will be given new guidelines to help them decide which victims should live or die.

The criteria, expected to be issued on Saturday reports the Independent, will be in place for medics to use if they run out of intensive care or ventilators.

Guidelines will cover patients with pre-existing conditions, including respiratory disease, cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

It is unclear if an age limit which treatment could be withdrawn, but other countries hit by the pandemic have implemented such measures.

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