Hospitals in London are less than two weeks away from being overwhelmed with Covid-19 admissions even in the "best case scenario", a leaked report states.
According to an NHS presentation seen by HSJ, hospitals in the capital will be short of nearly 2,000 general and acute and intensive care beds by January 19.
And that is even if numbers grow at the lowest rate and measures to sustain demand such as Nightingale hospitals prove effective, NHS England London medical director Vin Diwaka told medical directors of London's hospital trusts.
It comes as the UK's daily recorded Covid-19 deaths surpassed 1,000 for the first time since April, with an all time high of 62,322 infections as the disease continues to spread.
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