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Hospitals in Greater Manchester gear up for exhausting, drawn-out third Covid peak

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direct to your inboxGreater Manchester is forecasting 200 Covid patients in critical care by next week as the system gears up for an exhausting, drawn-out third wave peak.That projection is 25pc higher than the worst part of November's second wave, according to M.E.N.

analysis.One senior clinician with knowledge of the overall hospital picture described ‘significant concerns’ for the coming weekend, with hospitals now trying to free up as many beds as they can by then.Andy Burnham and other senior figures believe the system here should just about be able to cope with the peak expected to hit next week, however, although the backdrop was said by one senior official to be a ‘dire’ situation in the North West as a whole.Greater Manchester is.

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