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ICU units in Liverpool at 90% capacity, city in Tier 3 shutdown

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Intensive care units in hospitals in Liverpool are more than 90% full, with the city soon expected to reach levels of bed occupancy seen during the first wave of Covid-19, a city council leader has said.

Liverpool City Region is the only part of England under the toughest Tier 3 restrictions, with the closure of pubs and bars and bans on socialising.

Paul Brant, cabinet member for adult health and social care at Liverpool City Council, said intensive care capacity in the city was over 90% full, with Covid-19 patients making up an increasing proportion of patients.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Our intensive, critical care beds are filling up very fast.  "The most recent figures I've seen suggest they are over 90% full and our

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