COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[oakiecokie]

The NHS Nightingale Hospital will open next week.

The temporary hospital will have up-to 4,000 beds available for the public, with its opening set to alleviate the strain on hospitals across the country.

Health secretary Matt Hancock revealed the plans to open the hospital in the governments daily press conference-designed to inform the public of updates throughout the development of the coronavirus pandemic.

The NHS Nightingale Hospital will be opened in the London ExCeL Centre and will consist of two wards.


It will only be open to members of the public who have contracted coronavirus.

Ah thanks pet.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

When this is all over we need a name and shame thread for all the businesses that have acted like cunts. Let's hit them in the pocket, where it hurts.

Equally to give more custom to those companies that went out and tried to help in the battle and showed loyalty to their employees

 

[oakiecokie]

Canning Town. A converted conference centre.

Cheers.

 

[bobmcfc]

Yeah it’s almost as if the northern hemisphere is tilting more towards the sun than it was a month or two back :-)

lol

 

[SWP's back]

I think it's planned to be for 2 wards of 2,000 beds each, so 4,000 beds total.

Doesn’t that double our ICU capacity inside one building?

It’s also got two morgues, sadly.

 

[bobmcfc]

 

[55yr old teenager]

Anybody else thinking the same as me that we have not had the number of deaths yet because the numbers might be up drastically compared to previous days? Or am I just a pessimistic sod!!

 

[KnaresboroughBlue]

Doesn’t that double our ICU capacity inside one building?

It’s also got two morgues, sadly.

I think I heard we have around 12,000 at the moment with the private sector making theirs available plus some additional ones created. Not sure if that included the 4,000 from this new place or not.

 

[BosnianBlue]

Strange how we all lockdown, stop using cars, pollution reduces and it suddenly goes nice and warm outside.

It's snowing lightly here for 2-3 days. Almost nothing on the ground, but it's still snowing. Before that, it was great weather though.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

I hope the old adage is proven to be true this time "no news is good news".However I feel the worst for the delay.

Unfortunately I reckont be out by now, if that were the case, Oakie.