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Doctors raise alarm as Covid strikes down NHS workforce

Health service in crisis with 46,000 ill, warns BMA chief as calls grow for tough new lockdown steps

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The number of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who are falling ill with Covid-19 has reached crisis levels and is seriously hampering the fight against the rapidly escalating pandemic, senior figures in the NHS have warned.

The problem of staff absence, because of illness or the need to self-isolate when family members test positive, is also beginning to hamper the vaccination programme – just as the government throws maximum resources into efforts to vaccinate 15 million high priority people by the middle of February.

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