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Health bosses in Sunderland have asked staff to postpone holidays as the trust came “under extreme pressure” due to a surge in coronavirus cases.

Staff at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust – dealing with one of the highest infection rates in the country – are seeing hospital cases doubling week-on-week.

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A lot of debate in England at the moment centres around whether the NHS Covid app is notifying too many people to isolate, if you are on the side of worrying about the economy, or too few people to isolate, if you are on the side of worrying about escalating case numbers.

Sir Jonathan Montgomery, former chair of the ethics advisory board for the NHS Covid app, has been on LBC this morning and he said he would not change the function of being “pinged” by the app but rather what is required afterwards.

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