Covid: Royal Blackburn Hospital facing huge pressures

Patients needing critical care in Blackburn have been transferred to other hospitals due to a surge in people needing treatment.

The Royal Blackburn Hospital in Lancashire is facing huge pressures as it deals with the latest wave of coronavirus patients.

Linda Gregson, a matron at the hospital, said: "The whole of the critical care unit, as it was, is now back to being a Covid [ward]."

She said the unit has "far too many" patients to cope with at this time.

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