Nightingale hospitals in Manchester, Sunderland & Harrogate have been asked “to mobilise” in coming weeks, says NHS England's medical director Steve Powis There will be regular testing for NHS staff in high-risk areas “even when they don’t have symptoms”
Prof Steve Powis delivered some of the latest data on the virusWe've been hearing from the government's scientific and medical advisers about the latest coronavirus data. Here's what we learned:
It's"wishful thinking" that elderly people can somehow be"fenced off" from the risk of the virus, NHS England's medical director Prof Steve Powis said. There are already steep rises in the number of over-65s - and particularly over-85s - being admitted to hospital
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