Royal fans overwhelm Buckingham Palace

Eager Britons have ‘overwhelmed’ Buckingham Palace as it today stopped taking bookings amid a huge demand for tickets to picnic on the Queen’s lawns and explore the Royal gardens.     Thousands logged onto the Royal Collection Trust website hoping to book the experience after the self-guided garden tours were announced yesterday.  But the RCT was forced … Read more

NHS trust calls for help amid fears ‘perfect storm’ will overwhelm hospitals

An NHS trust responsible for Wales’ largest hospital has called for urgent help in caring for its Covid patients, as experts warn a ‘perfect storm’ caused by the faster spreading virus strain could overwhelm hospitals. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board put out a call for help on Boxing Day asking for ‘assistance from medical … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Winter wave ‘could overwhelm 87% NHS hospitals’

More than a hundred NHS Trusts may be overwhelmed this winter if the coronavirus hospitalisation rate surges to the level seen in April, an analysis has revealed. A comparison of the average number of beds needed between December 2019 and February 2020, and the number of beds required for Covid-19 patients in April, at the … Read more

NHS doctor reveals how she’s being forced to play God as coronavirus patients overwhelm wards

Last week, in a devastating dispatch, one terror-struck doctor at a major London hospital told how she was forced to watch helplessly as patients died in agony. Now, in a chilling new account, she reveals how medics are at breaking point as they face a tsunami of new coronavirus patients and crippling equipment shortages. Monday … Read more

Coronavirus could overwhelm NHS ‘within weeks’

Revealed: 71% of coronavirus intensive care patients are male and the average age is 64 as the number needing life or death care doubles every three days, senior doctors reveal Coronaviruses have been found to affect men more severely than women Although the elderly are most vulnerable to the disease, younger people have been warned against … Read more

Coronavirus could overwhelm hospitals and facilities in Iran warns top government official

A leading Iranian official has admitted that hospitals in the country could be overwhelmed by the coronavirus after a record 113 deaths and 1,209 new cases were reported in just 24 hours.  It was the first time that more than 100 people had died from the virus in a single day in the Islamic nation.  … Read more