Massive coronavirus 'field hospital' to be created in Yorkshire
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The temporary hospital will be set up at the Harrogate Convention Centre in North Yorkshire, with beds reported to be opening this weekend.
If confirmed, the centre would be the latest facility to be announced as a so-called Nightingale hospital, to care for patients with coronavirus.
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Hide AdNightingale hospitals have already been announced at the NEC in Birmingham, the GMEX centre in Manchester and the ExCeL conference centre in east London.
Speaking ahead of a Government announcement expected today, Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones said: “This a national emergency, everyone is having to take a pace forward, change the way they're behaving, change the way they're working, and this emergency is placing great pressures on all the teams in our health and care systems.
“The fact that Harrogate is at the heart of helping people right across our area is a very good thing."