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Covid hospital admissions could hit 5,000 a day forcing NHS 'to turn patients away'

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A leading expert has warned the NHS will "have to change" or risk being overwhelmed by 5,000 new coronavirus hospital admissions per day.

Oxford University's Professor James Naismith fears hospitalisations are on course to surpass 10 per cent of official daily cases, as the virus continues to run rampant.

Britain has seen eight straight days of over 50,000 cases, with 26,626 Covid patients currently in hospital beds in England alone.

That's up from 12,987 on December 4. Speaking to Metro, the director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute said: "Based on trends to date, it is very possible the UK hospital admissions will reach or even exceed 5,000 a day. "I don’t think that is sustainable for any long period.  "The worry is that if we

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