PROTESTERS are organising a New Year's Eve party as Covid cases continue to increase.
A group called Protest Everywhere is planning to throw an end-of-year celebration at Black Rock, Brighton, on Thursday amid a rapid rise in coronavirus cases in the South East.
A poster advertising the event in a seafront car park urges party-goers to “bring a bottle/drums/music/firewood/love and joy”.
The event to “raise the vibration for ’21 with your awake family” is planned to take place from 9pm.
This comes after a stark warning from one of the nation’s top doctors, who is begging people not to gather for New Year's Eve.
Dr Katherine Henderson, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, described her experience in hospital on Christmas Day as "wall-to-wall Covid".
READ MORE: Dramatic increase in coronavirus rates in all areas of Sussex
She told BBC Breakfast: "Please, don’t take a chance on this, please don’t make it likely that we have an additional surge.
"Don’t mix, wear masks, wash your hands, keep separate — all the things we know we really need people to take very, very seriously.
"We see patients who are coming in who have Covid symptoms and then we have other people coming in with other symptoms who turn out to be Covid positive.
"Between that, there's a great deal of difficulty getting those patients through into the wards.
"The chances are that we will cope but we cope at a cost - the cost is not doing what we had hoped, which is being able to keep non-Covid activities going.
"So we will stretch staff, the problem is at the moment we have a lot of staff sickness."
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of coronavirus cases recorded in all areas of Sussex, the latest figures show.
The seven-day rolling rate in Hastings has now surpassed 1,000 new cases per 100,000 people, giving it the 11th highest rate of the 315 local authority areas in England.
This was up from 807.2 the week before, an increase of almost 30 per cent.
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