Covid Gb, 223 dead today: never so many since March

Britain records 223 deaths from covid in the last 24 hours: today’s bulletin is the record since March 9. The new infections are instead 43,738, a lower number than yesterday’s bulletin which reported 49,156 new positive cases. The deaths reported today lead to a total of 911 deaths in seven days, a 15% increase over the previous seven days, notes the Guardian. Read also The number of new cases remains well above 40 thousand units. This trend risks burdening the health system: the prospect of waiting hours for an ambulance even for a heart attack becomes concrete. Waiting for up to six hours in winter will be “normal”, warned Richard Webber, spokesman for the College of Paramedics, interviewed by the British Press Association. in the emergency room there are also lines of “15 ambulances” waiting to unload patients and the 999 emergency number is blocked. In this way everything slows down, the ambulance staff deal with “three or four incidents per shift, while normally if they did eight”, Webber says, adding that many are forced to work up to three hours more. The West Midlands region is the hardest hit, with ambulance waits of up to eight hours. Webber pointed out that the emergency room situation is generally better in the summer. “But this time – he warns – it wasn’t like that and for this I fear it will be a long winter .. currently the situation is comparable to what we live in January, when it happens that the army comes to give us a hand, so I wonder what it will happen when we peak in winter. “