The tide is beginning to turn in the fight against coronavirus here. But it may not always feel that way. That's because this latest tide was a tsunami and given the scale of what the health system has been forced to deal with, the ebb and flow will take some time to settle.
The sheer scale of figures over the last week has also been daunting. The health system and its staff have faced unprecedented pressures.
These days will last long in the memory of every doctor, nurse and healthcare employee faced with the unimaginable. For patients too, who must go to hospital, there is a terrible road of uncertainty.
Yesterday, there were over 170 patients in ICU with Covid-19. These are record numbers in terms of the disease. Most of these patients