Winter Warning14 Oct 2021 15:28
There are plans if the NHS becomes overloaded and one of those is the re-introduction of wearing face masks....Keep safe and wear a mask....
Latest coronavirus updates as the UK reports 42,776 new coronavirus cases in daily figures:
Now, England's chief medical officer has admitted: "There are certainly some quite significant things we got wrong at the beginning of COVID."
Speaking at the annual conference of the Royal College of GPs in Liverpool, he warned of tough months ahead for the NHS as it battles COVID, flu, other viruses and the usual winter problems such as trips and falls.
He said: "In terms of where COVID will go over the winter, well I think the winter as a whole, I regret to say, is going to be exceptionally difficult for the NHS.