Residents are dying, swathes of staff are off sick and care home managers say they have been left to fight coronavirus alone as the pandemic sweeps across Greater Manchester.
24.03.2020 - 22:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A temporary hospital could be set up at the Manchester Central convention centre to care for coronavirus patients, the M.E.N. understands.
Today the health secretary announced the first such facility in London, at the ExCel centre in the Docklands.
That hospital - to be known as NHS Nightingale - will care for thousands of patients at a time and has been set up with the help of the military.
But defence sources told the Guardian earlier today that ‘more than one’ would be needed nationwide and
Residents are dying, swathes of staff are off sick and care home managers say they have been left to fight coronavirus alone as the pandemic sweeps across Greater Manchester.
At least 469 people with coronavirus have now died in Greater Manchester's hospitals as the region suffered its highest daily increase in fatalities.
Boris Johnson is out of intensive care and back on a hospital ward amid his battle with coronavirus.
Greater Manchester Police are responding to hundreds of coronavirus-related incidents every day.
As families across the UK enter their third week of lockdown, the economic pressures created by the coronavirus crisis are weighing heavy on a care system already undermined by austerity.
The A&E department at Wythenshawe Hospital has temporarily closed to all child emergency admissions.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care as he battles coronavirus, his office said in a statement Monday. The announcement comes a day after Johnson was admitted to St. Thomas' Hospital in London with what his office called «persistent symptoms of coronavirus.»
Manchester City expressed their heartfelt sympathy to Pep Guardiola and his family and friends after the death of the manager's mother.
A third of hospital beds across the region are now occupied by people with coronavirus, the region’s health chief has revealed.
Smokers are twice as likely to end up in intensive care or die if they contract coronvarius, a senior doctor has warned as he urged people to ditch cigarettes amid the pandemic.
Care packages will be handed out to hospital workers in Manchester after an NHS trust was inundated with donations from the public and businesses.
A ‘Nightingale’ hospital for coronavirus patients will be created at the Manchester Central convention centre, the government has confirmed.
The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital is appealing for donations of food, drink and toiletries for staff working around the clock amid the coronavirus outbreak.