There are currently 90 patients being treated.

There were only seven a month ago.

Our health editor, Hugh Pym, has spent the day at Western Hospital in Knowsley.

Surely went through it all in March and April, with the surgeon patients going into intensive care, and now she feels it's happening again.

This is really, really it really is.

It frightens me.

We all have to look after ourselves to look after our families and to look after the words community.

Please take head off What the government guidelines.

The hospital, serving a Merseyside community with one of the highest infection rates in the UK, invited us in today to see just what it means for frontline healthcare.

BBC News is donating some personal protective equipment to the hospital.

There are now nine Cove in patients here in intensive care, double the number a week ago, a few weeks before, it was just one that just shows how fast things are escalating on the impact on the hospital.

We've had a really challenging weekend, haven't we?

So we know that we're coming out of the weekend with a very busy organization.

At a Gold command meeting, the hospitals senior management are told there's beena jump in co vid patient numbers.

We've got 90 current positive in patients.

We've had 13 new positive patients in the last 24 hours.

For frontline staff like Nadine, there's concern at how fast events are moving on the likely pressures they'll bring.

We put our feelings to the back of our minds from the last wave because it was so stressful on.

Now that we've got this second wave three, anxiety has definitely come back within the staff.

Move in the trust you're feeling okay about surgery today.

The hospital is pressing on with non co vid care.

Melissa has come in for a routine operation, her joints easily dislocated because of her condition.

It was postponed back in March.

Now it's called me back and I am so relieved.

Even Mackerras are.

There's just so relieved that I can finally get on and hopefully get some comfort and relief from it.

We are ready to care.

We will protect you and keep you safe.

The medical director says they're doing what they can for all patients, but it's getting more difficult by the day.

These last couple of weeks have felt at least as worrying as the medical leaders it did in the first wave and in many ways even more worrying because I don't have the room to maneuver within the hospital that is already full on full of really deserving patients.

How close to you toe having to cancel routine surgery and procedures because of covert cases?

We are really close right now.

I've got every operating theater running, but we risk having to take some of that down.

Back in intensive care.

Grace, who has co vid 19 is ready to move out.

She wants to warn others about the reality of the virus.

Be fearful of it.

Make sure that you do the like.

Guidelines.

Keep keeping yourself safe a message which all NHS staff want the public to grasp as they face the bleak consequences of rising virus infections.

Que Pim BBC News at Whiston Hospital on Merseyside Well, the latest official figures showed 13,972 new infections were recorded in the latest 24 hour period It means the average number of new cases reported per day in the past week is 14,588.

Hospital admissions have also increased.

On average, 615 people were being admitted every day over the past week.

This number doesn't include Scotland.

50 deaths have been reported.

That's people who died within 28 days of a positive covert 19 tests.

That figure is usually lower after the weekend.

It means on average, in the past week, 72 deaths were announced every day.

It takes the total number of deaths so far across the UK to 42,875 all there were warnings.

Today, that is, the number of new infections continues to increase.

The virus is moving further into southern England and also spreading from the younger generations to older, more vulnerable people are, medical editor Fergus Walsh reports.

The Nightingale Hospitals in Manchester, Sunderland and Harrogate, set up for the first wave of coronavirus, are now being mobilized for the second.

There are more patients in hospital with CO vid 19 than when the national lock down happened in March on government medical advisers worn numbers will rise.

We have baked in additional hospital admissions, and sadly, we also have baked in additional deaths that are now consequent upon infections that have already happened.

They're being almost no hospital admissions among the under eighteens the flat line there.

Now there's bean, some increase among those aged 18 to 64.

But now look at those age 65 to 84 a sharp rise in hospital admissions and even more striking among those aged 85 plus, reinforcing the evidence that it is the elderly who are most at risk from coronavirus.

Even though most cases are among younger age groups, many who were never admitted to hospital have lingering health problems like fatigue so called long co vid on.

Then there are Aled, the usual demands on the health service.

Much non urgent care was postponed when the virus first hit.

The hope this winter is that won't happen.

Contact your GP.

If you're worried about cancer symptoms and unusual lump, for example, or blood in your urine, use the emergency service If you have chest pain or another acute condition.

We are determined to keep that capacity for non covert services open for as long as possible.

But the key to this is reducing infection rates.

So much depends on whether the rise in coronavirus infections can be curbed.

This map shows the rate of change of coronavirus in England.

The areas with sharpest rise in rates are shown in red, and you can see they're not just in the north of England.

The epidemic is also growing further south, especially in parts of London on the home counties, even though case numbers are still much higher in the north.

NHS leaders warned that within four weeks, some hospitals in northern England could be treating Mork obeyed patients than they were in April on their urging the public to respect the rules on coronavirus.