Michael Gove has announced that Manchester has been given the go ahead to begin building a new hospital within Manchester Central as part of the NHS’s fight against Coronavirus.

Speaking at the daily press conference, he said that NHS England has reconfigured hospital services so that 33,000 hospital beds are available to treat further patients.Work has already started this week at the ‘NHS Nightingale’ hospital in east London.

Stevens confirms he has given the go-ahead to the building of two further hospitals, one in Manchester and one at the Birmingham NEC.

It was also confirmed that today over 6,200 confirmed positive coronavirus patients are in hospital across in England and that number is only bound to rise over the coming days.The rate of infection, he added is doubling every day

Gove also announced that new alliance of businesses, research institutes and universities has come together to boost testing capacity for frontline workers has been brought in.

This will be antigen testing, testing whether people currently have the disease, so that health and social care workers can have security and knowledge that they are safe to return to work if their test is negative.

These tests will be trialled for people on the frontline starting immediately, with hundreds to take place by the end of the weekend, and will be dramatically scaled up next week.

There have been nine more deaths from coronavirus in Greater Manchester over the past 24 hours. Four have been  in Manchester, including one at The Christie, two in Bolton, two in Salford and one in Tameside.

It takes the number of deaths in the region to thirty six

 

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