UK approves third COVID-19 vaccine as London declares 'major incident' as hospitals overrun with patients
By Associated Press 4:31am Jan 9, 2021
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London declares 'major incident' as hospitals overrun
London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared a "major incident?, as the rapid spread of the virus threatens to overwhelm the capital's hospitals, with cases now exceeding 1000 per 100,000.
Other emergency services are also under strain, with hundreds of firefighters now driving ambulances, for example.
"Our heroic doctors, nurses and NHS staff are doing an amazing job, but with cases rising so rapidly, our hospitals are at risk of being overwhelmed,'' Mr Khan said.
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NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens said on Thursday that the pressures facing hospitals in London and the southeast of England are so acute that the Nightingale hospital at the ExCel London will be opened next week.
The hospital was one of several built in the spring to help during the pandemic, but wasn't used.
They were named after Florence Nightingale, widely considered to be the founder of modern nursing.
"The entirety of the health service in London is mobilising to do everything it possibly can, but the infections, the rate of growth in admissions, that is what collectively the country has got to get under control," Stevens said.
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