England’s National Health Service is struggling more amid the CCP virus pandemic than it has in its 72-year history, its Chief Executive Officer said on Sunday. NHS chief Sir Simon Stevens told the BBC’s Andrew Marr program that hospitals across the country continue to fill up with Covid-19 patients and “staggeringly” another person is admitted with symptoms “every 30 seconds.” “The facts are very clear and I’m not going to sugar-coat them,” he said. “Hospitals are under extreme pressure and staff are under extreme pressure.” The problem is not only in hospitals in London and the southeast where a new variant of the virus originally proliferated, Stevens said, but also in regions like the East of England, the Midlands, and the Northwest, including Merseyside which he said is “right back under the cosh.” To cope with demand, he said that critical care capacity had been expanded over the summer and was …