It follows the conversion of the ExCel exhibition centre into NHS Nightingale Hospital
. Soldiers, medics and construction workers have been working on the site to create the extra medical resource in just a matter of days.
A second source stated that the government is now planning for eight to 10 other ‘pop-up hospitals’ to be built in the coming weeks. However, they will not be as big as the ExCel conversion.The hospital should open next week . As of 5pm today, there are 11,658 people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in the country.Matt Hancock announced on Tuesday that the ExCel centre would reopen next week as the newly named NHS Nightingale Hospital.
On Wednesday, a construction worker at the site filmed a video inside one of the huge halls, which he said is about 1km-long, while urging viewers to digest the scale of the building and take the pandemic seriously. He said: ‘I didn’t take this virus very seriously until I saw this this morning and this is the size of the hall – this is where it’s all going.’The extra hospitals will create more beds for patients The construction worker added: ‘If you’re not taking it seriously like I wasn’t I think we really need to start because they’re preparing for an absolute high death toll here.
Members of the military are part of the Covid-19 support force, which will next week open and run the hospital.
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