Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has revealed that his father is on a coronavirus ward in hospital, and has been for “quite some time”.
“The work they (NHS staff) do is incredible, I speak to them every single day, of course, we have not been able to visit my dad for two months now,” he told Good Morning Britain.
“What they have been doing for nearly a year now has been extraordinary and, as you said, it has, of course, been worse now, even though numbers are coming down in hospital.
“And the one good piece of news we had yesterday is my father was transferred from a larger Covid ward to a slightly smaller one.
“We said ‘Well, what’s going on here?’ And they said that ‘Actually we are starting to see a reduction in patients’.
“But even now, even with that reduction, it’s still higher than it was in the first peak so we are not out of this yet, we just need to adhere to the lockdown and to the rules to stop more people ending up in those hospitals.”
