A “Major Incident” was declared by the county of Essex in Southeast England amid soaring cases of the CCP virus that threaten to overwhelm local health and care services. The formal declaration was issued on Tuesday by the Essex Resilience Forum (ERF), a multi-agency partnership of local councils, emergency services, and health providers who plan for major emergencies. It was issued in response to a “significant growing demand” on local services, the ERF said. It said in a media release emailed to The Epoch Times that the pressure on the NHS and care services is around “critical care and bed capacity, staff sickness/self-isolation levels, and the system’s ability to discharge patients quickly into safe environments.” It said the numbers of patients being treated for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus in the county had overtaken those at the peak of the first wave in the Spring and “are likely to …