LONDON
Inside new makeshift temporary coronavirus hospital at ExCel Centre
NHS “Nightingale”
A new 4,000 bed field hospital to treat coronavirus patients will be functioning as of next week, the Health Secretary has announced.
Matt Hancock confirmed that NHS Nightingale would be built with the help of military assistance at London’s ExCel Centre and be comprised of two wards, with the capacity for 2,000 beds in each.
The hospital will initially open with 500 beds equipped with ventilators and oxygen, and will be staffed predominantly by NHS doctors and nurses, as well as military medics.
It is understood the military were drafted in to help following a Military aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request due to the fact that they would be able to plan the logistics of setting up a huge facility in the space of a few days.
The Telegraph
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOxjJUGIn2I
CANADA
Anyone returning to Canada from abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic will no longer just be asked to self-isolate upon their return — that order is now mandatory.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu said during an appearance at the Senate on Wednesday that the government is done asking those returning to Canada from other countries to respect the request to go directly home and stay there for 14 days.
She is now invoking the Quarantine Act to force them to do so.
The move comes after repeated reports of travellers, including Canadians rushing to return as the border closed and commercial travel options disappeared, stopping to pick up groceries or do errands after they had crossed the border back into Canada.
Hajdu warned that those who do not obey government-imposed COVID-19 quarantine restrictions would face “significant penalties.”
GlobalNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkAMEghiDvE
FNC - hospitals enacting DNR orders for CV patients to limit spread.