The government announced on Tuesday that it was setting up a coronavirus hotel at the ExCel in London. Reports being circulated are not stating that the government is preparing to turn ten more sites into coronavirus field hospitals. A Whitehall source has told Sky News that military logisticians have already pinpointed five sites across the country and. The sites locations are expected to include large cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, and Newcastle. Birmingham is the worst affected region outside of London.
A second source has told Sky News that the government is looking at between eight and ten sites, a third source said it was around ten to 13. None of the newly proposed sites are expected to be as large as the one currently being built at the ExCeL Centre in London. The ExCel site has been named NHS Nightingale and will hold 4,000 beds on two wards and will be staffed by both NHS staff and military medics.
Nightingale hospital, as well as any other future field hospitals, will be supported by the armed forces. Britain’s military’s COVID-19 Support Force has 20,000 personnel on standby from all branches of the military and has already been delivering masks to St Thomas’ Hospital in London. A video posted on Facebook by Alex Woodside shows the incredible scale of one of the wards, of which there is two. In the video Mr Woodside tells viewers: “Just here making the new makeshift hospital. Currently making up cables for it. I didn’t take this virus very seriously until I saw this, this morning. Until I came in and saw the size of the hall”. Mr Woodside then 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.”
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