The latest deaths include 159 in England, two in Scotland and four in Northern Ireland. NHS Wales is not releasing figures today because of a ‘planned maintenance’.

SAGE – the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies – heard how the mortality rate of the virus fell from 35 per cent in early April to 15 per cent by August among UK Covid hospital patients.

NHS hospitals hospitals could receive the first deliveries of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine between December 7 and December 9, and given to NHS staff the following week, a report has said.

The 750-bed Nightingale hospital in Manchester is caring for a few dozen patients who have now tested negative for the coronavirus but are in need of step-down care after a stay in hospital.

North Dakota Gov Doug Burgum said Monday that health care workers who have tested positive for COVID-19 but do not have symptoms should be allowed to stay on the job.

Seven huge venues including London’s Excel Centre were converted into critical care hospitals early in the pandemic at a cost of £220million, but just two of them have treated Covid patients.

At a Downing Street press conference welcoming the nation into second national lockdown misery, the PM and NHS England chief Sir Simon Stevens pointed to the graph as evidence for lockdown.

Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said last night that he was ‘determined’ that routine services keep running despite the second wave.

Eighty-five per cent of Liverpool’s critical-care beds are normally occupied in October, NHS data from the last six years reveals. But this year the figure is ten per cent higher.

Harry died seven days after he was born in November 2017 at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate in a tragedy the coroner called ‘highly avoidable’.