National Health Service hospitals up and down the country are filled to the brim with Covid patients in the days after Christmas, with several in Essex and other Home Counties declared major incidents as a result of an increase in demand.
There have been reports of some hospitals having to ration oxygen, while other hospitals have been reduced to treating patients out of ambulances parked outside.
And now, two frontline doctors tackling the coronavirus pandemic have revealed the true extent of the crisis. “We’re working all the hours we can and it’s absolutely draining.