NHS bosses have told off frontline staff in hospitals for breaking social distancing rules.
During a a national video link conference of top experts fighting the disease, NHS England national clinical director for trauma Dr Chris Moran explained issues senior staff have had.
Staff in canteens and rest rooms have been seen not social distancing properly or at all.
Dr Moran said: "I've witnessed and I'm sure you've all witnessed that actually healthcare workers are not necessarily been the best at managing social distancing.
"We know when directly managing patients social distancing is impossible, that's what PPE is for to protect both sides of the equation.
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"But I think in the staff-only areas we could do quite a lot better in some of the places that I've visited."
National director for acute care Keith Willett raised concerns that staff may be passing the coronavirus on to one another.
He added: "The evidence we've seen coming through suggests the infection risks from staff to patients or patients to staff seems very low but the risks to staff of infection, Covid-19 infection, within hospitals is much, much, much higher between staff and staff, and patients and patients."
The warning comes after NHS England's patient safety director Dr Aidan Fowler said he was concerned about the "rates of spread within our hospitals".
During Prime Minister's Questions yesterday Boris Johnson said that 181 NHS staff had died of Covid-19.
