The UK’s Covid-19 epidemic is in a “very, very bad moment” with the NHS under “enormous pressure” and some hospitals like “warzones”, Sir Patrick Vallance said.

“It may not look like it when you go for a walk in the park, but when you go into a hospital, this is very very bad, with enormous pressure, and in some cases, it looks like a warzone in terms of what people are having to deal with,” said Vallance, speaking on Sky News on 20 January and answering questions from the public on the pandemic