Chloe is a senior nurse, the first Monday after Christmas and New Years, and it's been one of the worst shifts of my entire life.

Intense.

I'm looking after many more sick patients than I'm normally look after e just just overwhelming the whole situation.

In England alone, some 27,000 people are in hospital with co vid.

That's 40% more than during the first peak in April.

Nurse Hanna says it's taking a physical and mental toll on her.

I personally cry when I get home quite a lot, actually.

At the moment, sleep were suffering with sleep problems.

I think a lot of nurses and doctors at the moment as well.

You just have Thio relax on your days off, a best you can ready prepping yourself to come back again is what I would say our hospitals around the prime minister, Boris Johnson, announced a new national lock down for England late on Monday.

He said the highly contagious new coronavirus variant, first identified in Britain, was spreading so fast that the National Health Service risk being overwhelmed within 21 days.

Dominic Spray is the director of critical care at ST George's.

We are having to think about whether we do cancer surgery.

We're having to postpone cancer surgery because of the number of covert patients we have in.

So even if you don't think you are doing any harm by bending the rules a little, you are has a knock on effect and we are seeing the knock on effect here.

Alongside the new lock down, the U.

K is pinning its hopes on vaccination efforts.

The country has begun rolling out to vaccines against co vid on.

More than a million people have already received their first dose.

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