Sir Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, is now up on the Andrew Marr programme and is asked if London is coping.
He says hospitals are under "extreme pressure" and so are staff.
Since Christmas Day, there have been a 15,000 increase in inpatients in hospitals across England - the equivalent of 30 hospitals full of Covid patients - he says.
"Staggeringly, every 30 seconds across England another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus. That means, for example, between now and lunchtime this hospital would be full of new coronavirus patients."
This was being seen not just in London and South East, he said, but other parts of the country, including the East of England, the Midlands and the North West.
He is then asked if patients are having to be moved from London to other parts of the country.
He says hospitals are working with their neighbours to "share the load" and in a small number of cases there are transfers to other regions.
He says this is an "important safety valve".
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