nightingale hospital at the xcel center in london. the n.h.s. nightingale hospital will comprise 2 wards each of 2000 people with the help of the military and with n.h.s. clinicians we will make sure that we have the capacity that we need so that everyone can get the support they need but no matter how big we grow the n.h.s. unless we slow the spread of this virus then as we've seen those numbers will continue to rise and that's why it's so important that everybody follows the advice and stays at home. the final point i want to make is one of thanks as health secretary and as a citizen and on behalf of the whole country i want to thank the staff of the n.h.s. those who work in social care all of you not just the doctors nurses who normally get mentioned but the pharmacists the paramedics the managers and all star across the board you are the frontline in this war against this virus and we all pay tribute to you you're going to give you all over the next few weeks and i want you to know that we salute you and i will strain every sinew to get you

and the size is absolutely huge the nightingale emergency facility in london's xcel center in east london will eventually hold 4000 critical care spread across 2 wards each one being a kilometer long reports say that the doors could open as early as monday though with an initial 500 beds being made available for use but this facility is planned to be just one of potentially 10 crisis centers around the united kingdom all designed to deal with a surge of patients with breathing difficulties needing to access ventilators now all of that comes as the n.h.s. staff have been told to hide their work identity badges when they're coming in and out of hospitals because believe it or not there has been a spate of incidents where staff have been targeted by marketers who want to get access to their free food and drinks that has been made available to medical professionals on the frontline of this virus well to say thank you to those on the front line in the n.h.s. tonight the united kingdom will follow the lead of various european countries that are applauding the n.h.s. staff medical professionals

the crisis and to help deal with the pandemic the construction of the brand new hospital at the xcel center is well underway the nightingale emergency facility will eventually hold 4000 critical care beds spread across 2 wards each one being an entire kilometer long reports say the doors could even close 6 as early as monday with an initial 500 beds being made readily available but the facility is only plan. to be just one in potentially 10 across the country now we've also got various other stories coming out with and some not so good in fact we've heard that the n.h.s. staff have been told to hide their identification badge is full the n.h.s. when they're going to and from work because believe it or not they're now being targeted by muggers who wish to steal their identity cards to receive the free food and drink there has been provided to medical professionals on a lighter note then across the country the united kingdom will try and pay tribute to the n.h.s. workers looking at the models across the european cities whereby people are taking to the outside of their doorsteps to applaud and

the 2012 venue in london the xcel center where the 20 told olympics had facilities for the games can hold 40026000 people the wales rugby team at the principality stadium in cardiff is having 2000 beds there at their field hospital and in argentina which obviously we're now seeing this coronavirus begin to spread to south america the argentina football federation is turning that fits all court into a hospital with $120.00 additional beds and here here in the u.s. obviously tennis is postponed for a while but to the u.s. open is in august but until then obviously the syllabi that houses that up in new york in flushing meadows that venue is being turned into 350 temporary hospital beds along with kitchens at the louis armstrong stadium providing 25000 meal packages per day for patients workers volunteers and schoolchildren in the city you know it's interesting i mean i know you're a sports guy but it's almost sad. to see how these makeshift decisions are now being made almost in a panic like it does appears steve and it's great that the sports world is able to provide some of these fac

nightingale hospital at the xcel center in london. the n.h.s. nightingale hospital will comprise 2 wards each of 2000 people with the help of the military and with n.h.s. clinicians we will make sure that we have the capacity that we need. well he also reiterated the fact that the public should stay at home but there's much confusion still about workers and what work is deemed necessary and essential remember of course boris johnson just last night saying to the public to stay at home because that can save lives and will help the n.h.s. from being overwhelmed however there is still clearly a disagreement about what is deemed necessary essential plus no what he is addressing the situation when it comes to the self-employed the government of course has been under scrutiny and under fire for not protecting the south employed despite that huge financial alleviation package that was announced just last week but there is a huge gap when it comes to the self-employed chancellor was answering questions about this very matter today in the house of common

themselves as the government announced the opening of a temporary hospital with 4000 beds at london's xcel center to tackle the crisis and more than 3000000 antibody tests are being ordered to tell people whether or not they've had coronavirus or to discuss the frontline n.h.s. issues i'll be joined in the next hour by an intensive care doctor. well the u.k.'s foreign secretary dominic robb has been criticized by a former immigration minister over the dire situation of britain stranded abroad with no way of returning. and he's helped find the rings with no answer emails of knowledge but not replying to embassies that are closed and star flown home days ago dole shot to our travellers god was issued by the foreign office yesterday advising british tourists to return to the u.k. where commercial flights are available but then not available hotels are shutting flights are cancelled borders are closed and there are no reach home many are hours away from the larger pool in countries operating curfews those in australia or new zealand are looking for response in of course i welcome the comments he's ma

that's as the government announced the opening of a temporary hospital with 4000 beds at london's xcel center to tackle the crisis and more than 3000000 antibody tests have been ordered to tell people whether or not they've had coronavirus. and to discuss this further i'll be joined in the next out by an intensive care don't well critics continue to accuse the government of not providing enough protection for self-employed people many are unsure if their work is deemed essential by the authorities and can claim just 94 pounds 25 a week in universal credit if they don't turn up. well currently the government says anyone who works in the oil and gas electricity and water industries the utilities hockey was and all permitted to travel to work while buildings and laborous all not designated because the housing secretary robert genic said that they can continue to work on signs chewing the lockdown restrictions a significant portion of those workers all self employment but the government advised his workers to off their employer if their role is an essential public service well this isn't possible

plus the highest number of cases and now there is the construction of a new hospital in the london xcel center one of the key workers on this site filmed a video as he walks through what will soon be called the nightingale hospital the emergency facility is in east london and will eventually hold 4000 critical care beds spread across 2 wards as you can see on your screen it is huge and just to give you an idea the center has 87000 square meters of space one whole being a whole kilometer long reports say the doors could open as early as monday with an initial 500 beds being made readily available for use now the facility is planned to be just one of maybe 10 crisis centers across the whole of the united kingdom all designed to deal with the huge surge of patients with breathing difficulties needing access to ventilators so on this matter of ventilators then last week the house secretary. issued a call for manufacturers and produces to produce this much needed equipment and dyson today has answered that call so the government has placed an order for 10000 ventilators however the prototypes will

up that offer and have been reregistered and are awaiting further orders you join me outside the xcel center in london it's enormous conference center back in 2009 at the height of the financial crisis it was used as a venue for the g 20 an emergency summit of the g 20 well approaching the height of a very different crisis potentially a far worse crisis the xcel these being repurposed into an emergency hospital there are military planners and engineers inside they're turning it into an emergency hospital force for work beginning early next week with 500 beds moving up to a total we understand of $4000.00 beds in anticipation as i say of a wave of cases overwhelming hospitals in the london area london expected to be a week and a half to 2 and a half weeks ahead of the rest of the country there are other field hospitals planned in time at other sites around the country 700 military personnel as i say working now a further 3 and a half 1000 on short term standby to step in and help civilian authorities around the country if needed among other things the military is being deployed at the moment

on now in all sorts of different ways in all sorts of different places one of them is here the xcel center behind me in london it's an enormous conference and event venue it once held the g 20 at the height of the financial crisis is now preparing of course for a very different kind of crisis that turning it into a massive emergency hospital it's said to be ready next week with 500 beds scaling up to 4000 in the weeks ahead and as i say there are other venues preparing to do the same sort of thing across the country as well 250000 volunteers have been called for by the n.h.s. to help in a vaccine kept behind the scenes capacity. acts and n.h.s. staff retired staff are being reregistered and brought back on board there's a lot of upscaling going on and some good news in that context came out of a parliamentary committee hearing earlier today where professor neil ferguson now he's got form he's a scientist with imperial college london who's report was very persuasive in getting the government to change its stance on in hans its position on social distancing and isolation at home he has said

italy where there is literally no room in intensive care units anymore and right now in fact the xcel center a big conference center in docklands here in london is being prepared for around 500 emergency beds to deal with covered 19 patients in the coming weeks. to see the scenes behind the streets about busy the torah station for the time being thanks very much indeed. what is countries the world over order citizens to stay at home u.s. president donald trump says he is considering how businesses can reopen a soon as possible despite a rapidly growing rate of infections i did you a customer has this. the streets of manhattan are empty reminiscent of the days after 911 but with a new york's hospitals doctors say they're under siege the number of cases across the country has soared we don't get control of this like in the next 2 to 3 weeks our hospital system to be overwhelmed under mounting pressure from state governors president trump says his administration has shipped 8000000 respirator masks he's also signed an executive order to prevent the hoarding of critical medical supplies but if y

it's usually the xcel exhibition center. it will be able to have 4,000 patients and it will be assisted by the army. also, a huge recruitment drive for volunteers. the government wants a quarter million healthy brits to volunteer to help distribute and supply and transport medicine, food, supplies, particularly to those vulnerable in the neighborhoods. and this just adds to the volunteers we've already seen from the nhs, a huge corps went out for retired doctors and nurses to come back. 12,000 have now answered that call, one of which is actually my father, who is 64, a retired oncologist. he has answered that call and is awaiting instructions. rosemary? >> absolutely wonderful. well done on his part. and so many others have been retire and they're waiting to be called up yet again. anna stewart, many thanks for big us up to date on the situation there. appreciate it. >>> well, just ahead, we will have details on the $2 trillion stimulus package heading to the white house. >> and the risk of getting sick from the coronavirus

announced this new what amounts to a field hospital really that they are putting into the xcel exhibition center in the docklands part of east london it's going to have $4000.00 beds there for patients to wards each of 2000 beds and it will be starved both by doctors nurses from the n.h.s. but also. will be run by the the army as well as giving you an idea of the kind of the war like military side of this coronavirus that outbreak that this is this is akin to a global conflict. that's how the u.k. is starting to look at it and they're planning for mass casualties in the way that you plan for mass casualties during a huge conflict. they are also drafting in volunteers are going along with the same theme putting out cold and h s one and says we want a quarter of a 1000000 people to come in and help out with this fight stage have already put a call out to people who used to work in the n.h.s. who have left to come back and they say that that was we don't sit 512000 nearly 12000 people doctors and nurses etc he went off to other professions or went off into the private service so that's the area tha

as lawrence was saying take a look at that building over there it's called the xcel london it's an enormous conference center on the eastern edge of the city of london as we speak there are many military army planners and engineers in there at work turning it into an emergency field hospital we're told they're expected to be operational next week with 500 beds scaling all the way up to 4000 quite quickly thereafter and there are other centers like it planned across the country part of a huge upscaling in the capacity of the national health service across the u.k. to cope as you said volunteers needed a call went out for 250000 volunteers to help behind the scenes the n.h.s. to cope 170000 people we believe have responded to that call there are retired n.h.s. staffers being brought back into the service reregistered to be able to help also in their thousands and on that point on this idea of the surge in capacity some good news came out of a parliamentary hearing a couple of hours ago where professor neil hend henderson was giving evidence to m.p.'s ferguson a bigger part was giving evidence to m.p.'s he of i