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Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic with me, Helen Sullivan.
In England, the NHS is as stretched now as it was at the height of the pandemic in January and things will get worse before they get better, providers have said in a letter to the PM, cabinet ministers and the NHS England CEO.