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Coronavirus: NI health staff braced for expected Covid-19 surge


Senior medics have issued a stark Covid-19 warning as health staff brace themselves for a predicted surge in coronavirus cases this weekend. On Saturday, 12 further deaths with Covid-19 were recorded by the Department of Health, taking its death toll to 1,716. Another 670 people tested positive for the virus. There are 810 people in hospital with Covid-19, of which 66 are in intensive care. Dr Thelma Craig, a respiratory consultant at Belfast's Mater Hospital, said that more patients are being hospitalised in this wave of the virus. It is affecting younger people too. 'We are seeing people coming in with very little past medical history - coming in, in respiratory failure, desperately unwell,' Dr Craig told BBC News NI.

BBC News - January 23, 2021

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