Medic in UK coronavirus hotspot hoped the situation would have been ‘better by now’

Staff battling for coronavirus patients at the James Cook University Hospital last year (Dr Matthew Jones/PA)

An intensive care consultant in one of the UK’s worst coronavirus hotspots said he thought the situation would have improved by now.

Dr Richard Cree, who works at Middlesbrough’s James Cook University Hospital, said the number of Covid-19 patients in critical care had increased in the last week.