Under-fire UK govt rushes to build field hospitals as virus death toll surges | Malay Mail

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LONDON, April 3 — The UK government said Friday it was rushing to build more emergency field hospitals ahead of an expected surge in coronavirus cases, hours after recording a record 569 deaths from the disease. Two new facilities will be built in Bristol in the west and Harrogate in the north to...

Friday, 03 Apr 2020 03:34 PM MYT

The announcement comes as a similar 4,000-bed facility in London — built in less than ten days — prepares to open Friday, and as criticism mounts over the government’s failure to provide screening, particularly for frontline healthcare workers. Heir to the throne Prince Charles Thursday made his first public comments since coming out of self-quarantine after contracting the disease, telling the PA news agency the experience had been “strange, frustrating and often distressing”.The country took part in another collective round of applause at 8:00 pm Thursday, with social media videos capturing cheers across its cities, towns and villages.

Testing for the general public has also been criticised as not widespread enough and is currently largely limited to hospital admissions of the most serious Covid-19 patients.

 

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