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What does one million square feet of empty space look like? Anyone who stepped inside the NHS Nightingale Hospital in East London yesterday will know only too well. The facility, constructed under military supervision inside the ExCel conference centre in April, is no longer there; no equipment, no staff and certainly no patients. ‘It’s closing down,’ a security guard told us. Even without venturing through the entrance, that much was obvious. An NHS road sign initially erected to direct ambulances arriving at the site could be seen lying beside a wall, and dozens of partition walls —...

Invalid Date, ESSEX today called in the Army after declaring a major incident at their crippled hospitals with patients being treated in the back of ambulances. Sir Bernard Jenkin, MP for Harwich and North Essex, made the plea as it was revealed frontline workers are facing unprecedented pressure. 14 Patients could be treated in triage tents - usually reserved for large-scale disasters, like terror attacksCredit: AFP - Getty 14 14 Ambulance crews are under unprecedented pressure, it was claimedCredit: Twitter/lizbenne He asked Health Secretary Matt Hancock for military support in building ex...

UK coronavirus cases surge by more than 50,000 overnight for first time Harriet Brewis It is the first time the figure has exceeded 50,000 overnight. It takes the total number of infections recorded across Britain since the start of the pandemic to 2,382,865. The Government also said a further 414 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus as of Monday, bringing the official national total to 79,351. However, separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies, together with additional data on deaths that have occurred in recent days, show there...

'Eye of the storm’: As U.K. coronavirus cases hit record high, health-care workers are overwhelmed Adam Taylor Replay Video Doctors and nurses across Britain are sounding the alarm as confirmed cases of covid-19 reach record highs, with experts urging the government to implement a stricter lockdown to prevent the health system from being overwhelmed. Simon Stevens, chief executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, told reporters on Tuesday that hospitals were “back in the eye of the storm” as new cases surged across Europe and Britain. He said more mu...

Hospitals running out of oxygen and could house Covid patients in tents, medics warn Patient admissions expected to rise further after UK sees record number of coronavirus cases for second day running NHS hospitals are running out of oxygen, medics claimed on Tuesday as they began planning to set up makeshift tents to try and cope with an influx of coronavirus patients. Areas hit hardest by the second wave of the virus began cancelling cancer treatments as well as elective surgery amid fears that seriously ill patients were again avoiding Accident and Emergency departments. Patients were havi...