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Were live until am this morning. Are you waiting for a non urgent operation . If so, wed love to hear from you this morning about how long youve been waiting. Are you one of the many people whove arrived at hospital only to have your operation cancelled on the day . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. We are going to go and live now to hear from donald we are going to go and live now to hearfrom donald tusk, the president of the European Council. You can see the podium there, he is waiting to speak in malta in the next few minutes, he will of course be talking about those brexit negotiations, so we will go back to that live as soon as it happens, you wont miss anything at all. Our top Story Today Patients will have to wait longer for routine operations, such as hip and knee replacements as a trade off, so that improvements can be made in other areas like a e. That
they travel thousands of miles. risking everything in pursuit of a better life in the united states. for many, the journey brings them here to an el paso texas. where over the past year the sheer number of migrants created a humanitarian crisis. it is overwhelming. i think sometimes i cannot absorb all of this pain because there is so much going on. this father s pastor of el paso s sacred heart church. the last winter he watched as the emergency unfolds on his doorstep. there were some days when there were just like 1200 people or so around this area. sleeping on the streets. in front of stores. around the church for sure. father garcia leapt into action. turning the church s school gymnasium into a shelter. so what is it that they receive here? they received, first of all, a place to sleep.
double the normal number of absences we would expect to see. secondly, the sheer numbers coming into hospital. you do expect at this time of year about 1000 admissions a day for all type of respiratory infections, but we are seeing double that for covid alone. some of those normal winter pressures are much lower, flu rates are much lower, we have fewer than 50 patients in hospital with the flu at the moment in england. what matters now is when these covid infection do peak, it will make a difference to just how bad the winter could be. official figures from the national office of statistics about the prevalence of the virus. the infection rates have been climbing, driven by the 0micron variant.
the situation is not safe. from assisting paramedics to bolstering teams at testing sites and vaccination centres, more than 1,800 service personnel have already been deployed across the uk. around 90 are preparing to assist three health boards in scotland, while in england, 200 army medics and soldiers are being deployed across hospitals in london. this winter, there is an extraordinary pressure on our nhs. it is our duty to be a sticking plasterfor the nhs to help get through a time of extraordinary crisis. these are unprecedented times. while there are early signs that cases may be slowing in london, it s too soon to know the full impact of the new omicron variant on hospitals. 7,000 army forces personnel are on standby if more reinforcements are needed. katharine da costa, bbc news. earlier i spoke to our health correspondent, nick triggle, who talked us