Coronavirus: UK measures 'making a difference'
Of the 1,000-a-day rise in hospital patients, he told reporters at the daily briefing:"I do expect that number to continue. I expect people coming every day to be about that, it may go up a little bit.He said the figures suggested the UK was"not on a fast acceleration" - but warned that"we expect this to get worse" over the next couple of weeks because of the"lag" in social distancing measures taking effect.
"He worked so hard, both private and NHS, at many hospitals. He saw hundreds and hundreds of patients. We don't know how many patients he was exposed to."There is a glimmer of hope in these figures: had deaths continued to grow at that recent daily rate of roughly a third a day, we might have expected to see 350 new deaths on Sunday and 450 today.
Special hospitals are being set up in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff and London, where a new Nightingale hospital with 4,000 to 5,000 beds has been set up at the ExCel Centre. It will start receiving its first patients this week.
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