UK nurse concerned about Kiwi Covid response
Yesterday Britain reported 1564 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19 on Wednesday, a record daily toll. Those updated numbers mean more people have died in the UK in the second wave of the pandemic than the first wave last year. The increase in cases is driven by cases of the new UK more infectious variant of Covid 19. There have now been almost 85,000 deaths in Britain - the fifth highest figure globally - and 3.2 million have tested positive for Covid 19. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday there were about 32,000 Covid-19 patients in hospitals, about 70 percent more than during the peak of the first outbreak last April, and that the risk of intensive care units being overwhelmed was substantial. One of the people working in those units in New Zealander Hayley Reid who works as agency intense care nurse. She works one day contracts in UK ICUs and can be at multiple hospitals in one week.