Hospital staff battling a second wave of coronavirus have said they are exhausted and disheartened to see people ignoring the rules. But, the medics at Whiston Hospital in Knowsley, a Merseyside borough which has seen some of the highest infection rates in the country, say they will “soldier on” as numbers of patients with the virus start to approach the levels they were at the peak of the pandemic. Interviews with Ascanio Tridente, Nadine McStein and Rowan Pritchard Jones.