Eight Nightingale hospital surge hubs were built by the Government this winter for an undisclosed amount of money that now stand empty in anticipation of a wave that never came.
In its own data, the NHS has revealed that 23% of ICU beds are unoccupied in the middle of January. This is unprecedented in recent history. Normal ICU bed occupancy at this time of year is well over 90%.
In what may be a sign of things to come, arch-lockdown fanatic Michael Gove has begun to pivot, contradicting Nadhim Zahawi by refusing to rule out the end of free LFTs and saying the pressure on the NHS is "abating".
Despite the record number of UK reported infections and despite hospital admissions rising in the past few weeks, Covid ICU occupancy has barely budged since the summer, and even declined in the past two days.
England's NHS waiting list has risen to a new high of 5.6 million, with almost 300,000 people waiting for more than 52 weeks to start treatment.
The NHS waiting list in England could reach 14 million by next autumn, according to a new report by the IFS. And that, it says, is just the beginning: "Much longer waiting lists be with us for years to come."
The number of people waiting to start hospital treatment in England has passed five million for the first time, while the number waiting for more than a year remains significantly higher than before lockdown began.
The number of patients needing hospital treatment for Covid continues to fall in the former Indian variant "hotspot" Bolton, as the PM says "there is still nothing in the data" to suggest lockdown should be extended.
The number of people waiting to receive hospital treatment continues to rise, with 4.7 million people stuck on a waiting list by the end of February in England alone. This is the highest number since 2007.
A coalition of cancer charities has warned that cancer deaths could rise for the first time in decades due to the Covid backlog. They said that almost 45,000 UK patients are "living with cancer without knowing it".
