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(Picture: PA)The second coronavirus wave will be “gruelling professionally and personally” with increased pressure throughout the winter, UK doctors have been warned.
NHS chiefs and all four British medical officers have written to medics urging them to brace for a “prolonged” Covid-19 outbreak over the coming weeks or even months.
Healthcare professionals will have to be flexible, which “may entail working in unfamiliar circumstances or surroundings, or working in clinical areas outside of their usual practice,” their letter warns.
On Wednesday the UK’s official coronavirus death toll passed the grim milestone of 50,000, with 595 further deaths reported.
It comes as Boris Johnson’s official spokesman told a Westminster briefing that England’s lockdown will not be extended. He insisted: “When the current national measures come to an end on December 2 we will be returning to a regional tiered approach."
