ENGLAND
Manchester Convention Center and Birmingham’s National Exhibition Center will be transformed into field hospitals. Birmingham Airport will be temp mortuary with space for 10K bodies.
Staff needs PPE. Staff testing begins next week starting with critical care nurses and ambulance services.
ITV News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X72NfLZdaOo
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33,000 new UK hospital beds for coronavirus patients - BBC News
Mr Gove says that the best analysis shows the rate of infection in the UK has been doubling every three to four days.
..The head of the NHS in England, Simon Stevens, tells the briefing there are currently 6,200 patients with coronavirus in hospital...
An extra 33,000 beds are being created for coronavirus patients as part of an “extraordinary effort” to reconfigure the health service, he adds.
He confirms that there will be two new major Nightingale hospitals built on the sites of Birmingham’s NEC and the Manchester conference centre. [in addition to the existing one for East London]
(antigen testing to start tomorrow for all front line people)
(18,000 doctors and nurses volunteer to return to practice; hundreds of thousands of other volunteers)
BBC News, 30min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W58TDx-zAIY
CANADA
Nobody likes their Parliament. Govt Overreach. late to the party on travel restrictions
8:50min in,
border issues between Canada and the USA - Canada “strongly opposed” to the US proposal to put troops on the border- would lead to a ‘lack of cooperation’ on Canada’s part - no discussions at high levels. Came out of discussion for troops on southern border. Does Trump/Pence/Pompeo even know of the proposal? Is it just a ‘crazy idea’ floated by a reporter that Canada responded to?
CBC News, 15min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnLEAnCUG8c