Decisions about which patients receive life-saving treatment could be imminent, doctors warn

Hospitals could soon face “horrendous choices” about which Covid-19 patients receive potentially life-saving treatment because the NHS is so dangerously overloaded, doctors fear.

The warning came amid growing pressure on the government to put the whole of the UK into a new lockdown and to delay the start of the new school term by up to a month to help stem a massive rise in infections.

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