LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) - The Belfast Trust, which runs
hospitals in the Northern Irish capital, called on nurses to
work later on Sunday and overnight to help ease "extreme
pressure" at two hospitals because of an increasing number of
COVID-19 patients.
The number of new cases is still high across the United
Kingdom, fuelled in part by a highly transmissible new variant
and a relaxation in restrictions imposed to try to stop the
spread of the coronavirus.
On Twitter, the Belfast Trust said: "We are under extreme
pressure in the RVH & Mater (two hospitals in Belfast) as we
care for an increasing number of Covid19+ patients, alongside
emergency admissions."
"We are asking for help from our Trust nursing staff to work
tonight & overnight."
Health is a devolved matter in Britain so Northern Ireland
has pursued its own tailored strategy to tackling the pandemic,
moving more slowly than England in relaxing COVID restrictions.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Editing by Susan Fenton)