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Emma Whapples is juggling teaching with raising an 11-year-old, working in a birthing centre and helping with vaccination drive
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Firefighters are helping to transport intensive care patients between hospitals to ease pressure on the NHS. In a statement yesterday (Thursday, January 14), the fire service confirmed staff have also now started to assist South Western Ambulance Service with patient transfers.
The Covid battle continues for St Helens Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust “THE Covid time bomb has well and truly exploded at Whiston this weekend.” That was the email sent to Ann Marr, chief executive of St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals Trust at 4.45am on March 30. The hospital trust’s chief executive recently shared the powerful message with its partners, as staff fought off the dreaded second wave. “If you can imagine, we were all watching on television, first of all what was happening in Italy and then what was happening in London, and seeing particularly how the intensive care units were becoming overwhelmed really quickly,” Ms Marr said.
One of the three people who tested positive for the new COVID-19 variant, a 75-year-old Maltese woman, is being cared for at hospital but is in a stable condition.
She is not at the Intensive Treatment Unit or the Infectious Disease Unit, a health department spokesperson confirmed to
Times of Malta.
The woman, together with two other people, tested positive to the more contagious variant of COVID-19 over the past few days.
Health Minister Chris Fearne revealed that the new variant had appeared in Malta in a tweet on Wednesday morning.
Later in the day Superintendent of Public Health Charmaine Gauci said three cases had been detected so far. Two of them, a 37-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man, arrived from the UK on December 19.