Infection rates have been soaring across the UK with another 3,395 people diagnosed on Thursday.
Hospital admissions due to COVID-19 have started to increase again and there are fears this will intensify, as hospitalisation numbers tend to lag behind case numbers by a couple of weeks.
According to the Daily Telegraph hospitals have been instructed to make room for extra patients ahead of an expected surge in coronavirus cases.
Isolation wards are being created for coronavirus patients to keep them separate from those with other conditions.
Speaking to the paper an MP who was briefed on the plans said: “The rate of infection is going up, and I was told hospitals have reserved beds for people coming out of hospital who need somewhere to recover.
“At the start of lockdown they were having to send people back to care homes or back to other facilities, with dire consequences, so they’ve booked places in respite care or empty care homes.
“People will go out of hospital, but they won’t return to their normal place of living.
“They just need care before they go back home so that they empty the hospital wards.”
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