Constant Tsunami: more and more hospitals are overloaded in London due to a Coronavirus

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"Constant Tsunami": More and more hospitals in London overloaded due to Coronavirus

The UK national health service NHS complained of an increasing Congestion of the London hospitals, because of the Coronavirus pandemic. The hospitals in the British capital with a "permanent Tsunami" ill Corona-patients faced, said the senior NHS representatives Chris Hopson on Thursday, BBC Radio 4.

After the hospitals in the last weeks of your capacity for intensive medical treatment of patients "massiv" expanded would give it a "Explosion" the number of seriously ill patients. The situation would be further exacerbated by the fact that many hospital staff were currently ill, and therefore absent. The Sick-the hospital staff was "30 percent, 40 percent, and in some places even 50 Prozent", Hopson said. This was "beispiellos".

According to information from Wednesday 9529 infections were in the United Kingdom so far with the novel Coronavirus detected, 463 Infected died. Last week, the government announced the establishment of a makeshift hospital, with 4000 beds in a London conference center.

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