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A surge in flu cases is impacting hospitals in Greater Manchester, with NHS figures showing an average of 164 patients in hospitals across the region with flu each day last week. It comes as the NHS warns the health service could be facing a 'worst case scenario' this Christmas as 'super flu' cases continue to climb.

Across the country, the number of patients hospitalised with flu remains at a record level for this time of year, jumping 55 per cent in just one week - to an average 2,660 patients in hospital each day last week.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said a 'particularly aggressive' strain of flu - dubbed 'super flu' - is creating 'probably the worst pressure the NHS has faced since Covid'. Known as A(H3N2) - or subclade K - the new strain has rapidly become

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