Nurses will be allowed to look after two Covid patients to ease pressure on hospitals

Nurses will be permitted to look after two Covid patients at the same time in an attempt to relieve strain on hospitals, NHS bosses have ruled. NHS England has decided to temporarily relax the 1:1 rule amid rising numbers of staff who have been forced off sick with the virus or told to self-isolate. The number of people ill with Covid has risen to 11,514, of who 986 are on ventilators, according to the most recent figures. NHS England has agreed its decision with the British Association of Criti