Some London hospitals are now almost two-thirds full with Covid-19 patients, President of the Royal College of Physicians Andrew Goddard said Saturday. The emergency field hospitals which may soon come into play are called NHS Nightingale , after the pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale. Questions have previously been asked about how the Nightingale hospitals will be staffed given that hospitals are already struggling to meet demand. According to the government's latest healthcare data on January 1, there were 22,534 coronavirus patients in hospitals across England. Intensive care doctor Rupert Pearse, at the Royal London Hospital in east London, tweeted Saturday that he was working on the Covid ICU again.

Source: CNN January 02, 2021 14:37 UTC