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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Helena Vesty

Hospitals battling new Covid wave as doctors ‘can’t rule out cancelling surgeries’

Frontline hospital workers have warned a new coronavirus wave, rising Covid admissions and staff shortages mean the situation in one region’s hospitals is “on a knife edge”.

Greater Manchester’s lead Director of Public Health said it was “no surprise” that coronavirus rates were back on the climb, close to three weeks to the day after the government rolled back the remaining Covid safety measures.

But while the official picture is one of getting back to normal and ‘living safely with Covid’ - the region’s NHS medics and managers say differently, the Manchester Evening News reports.

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