UK asks for 250,000 volunteers to help its health service cope with the coronavirus outbreak
Published Tue, Mar 24 202012:50 PM EDTUpdated 29 min ago
Katrina Bishop
Ryan Browne
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It is hoped that the network of volunteers will help the up-to 1.5 million people especially vulnerable to coronavirus who have been told to “shield” themselves for 12 weeks.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that final year medical students and student nurses would be moved to the National Health Service’s “front line.”
He also announced that the government was opening a temporary hospital which could hold two wards of 2,000 people each.