most severely impacted by the requirement for table service. up to 5 million will be allocated to nightclubs required to close. we are also working closely with the sports sector, sporting events are obviously affected by the limit on spectators and also by cancellations due to covid absences. however we also know that some of this impact will be alleviated by the rescheduling of events so we want to make sure that the support we provide is effectively targeted and we will be confirming further details soon. in total we have now reached decisions on the allocation of 207 million of the 375 million being made available for business support and councils are now working to get that money into bank accounts as fast as possible. decisions on the allocation of the remaining funds will be confirmed following consultation with affected sectors on how it can be best targeted. i know how difficult all of this is
the last winter before the pandemic hit. as you can see, in the most recent week 23% of patients who were brought to a&e in an ambulance faced a wait of over 30 minutes outside a&e, two years ago the same week it was 18%. that is because covid brings with it some very unique challenges. as reported, staff absences are rising, we are seeing double the normal number of absences we would expect to see. secondly, the share 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 loo at the moment in england. what matters now is when
i admit i can t see to do what i used to do, but i would be in my own environment. life would be much more pleasant. hospitals are reaching capacity whilst seeing a sharp rise in staff shortages. i6 trusts are still in critical incident mode. the latest nhs data shows more than 35,000 staff at acute trusts were off each day on average, due to covid, after the 2nd of january. up to. that is 4% of the workforce and up 41% on the previous week. but there are regional differences. the north east and yorkshire was hardest hit. there were more than 7,000 covid absences, which is 5% of staff and up by 79% on the previous week. in london, there were over 5,000 covid absences, or 3% of staff. that is down by 4% on the week before. these figures are really stark. outside of health care, staffing shortages are closing shops and cancelling trains.
two former prime ministers back calls for a so called hillsborough law to ensure fairer treatment for bereaved families. and, whatever happened to roly, zammo and gripper? grange hill, a tv staple for 30 years, is being turned into a film. good afternoon. staff absences caused by covid are making hospital care unsafe that s the warning from the main nursing union, the rcn. absences are up more than 40% in a week in england, and about one in eight hospitals are in a critical incident, which means they re struggling to provide core services. the armed forces have been called in to help 200 personnel have been deployed