NHS staff are “stretched to their limit” as hospitals try to cope with more than 2,300 Covid patients, one of Wales’ most senior doctors has warned.
Deputy chief medical officer Dr Chris Jones said critical care units were “operating far beyond their normal capacity”.
He told a briefing on Monday that there were more than 100 deaths with Covid-19 reported over the weekend.
It comes as the new variant of the virus as been found “all over Wales”.
“Unless we can regain some control of the spread of coronavirus, I am sorry to say we will see more deaths,” said Dr Jones.
He told Monday’s briefing 10 cases of the faster-transmitting new variant identified in Wales last Monday had doubled to 20 cases by Friday.
Dr Jones said those cases were mainly in Bridgend and Vale of Glamorgan, but he stressed it was “present all over Wales – this includes north Wales”.
(source BBC Wales)