[Published: Friday April 03 2020]
UK opens first emergency coronavirus hospital
LONDON 3 Apr (ANA) - The first of the government's emergency field hospitals to treat coronavirus patients is opening in east London's ExCel centre.
The temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital will be able to hold as many as 4,000 patients and be staffed by NHS medics with help from the military.
Prince Charles is officially opening the hospital via video link.
Similar hospitals are planned for Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Harrogate and Bristol.
The ExCel exhibition space - usually used for large events such as Crufts and Comic Con - has been transformed into a hospital in just 10 days.
It is the first of several Nightingale Hospitals planned in England, with latest two to be announced to be built at the University of the West of England in Bristol and the Harrogate Convention Centre.
Others are due to open at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and Manchester's Central Complex.(ANA)
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