Get our daily coronavirus email newsletter with all the news you need to know direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailDoctors are braced for the reopening of Covid wards in just three weeks to combat a coronavirus surge. Nightingale Hospitals built to help the NHS cope with the first wave of the virus are being made ready for new patients. And those currently relieving pressure on the NHS by carrying out cancer screening and routine ultrasound tests are being readied for a second wave. But one consultant told the Sunday Mirror: “Plans are in place for Covid wards to be reopened to cope with a fast-rising rate of infections. That means people with the virus are infecting an average of nearly two others and cases are doubling every seven days.

Source: Daily Mirror September 12, 2020 20:35 UTC