UK prepares emergency ‘Nightingale’ coronavirus hospitals and closes London primary schools

Britain has reactivated emergency hospitals built at the start of the pandemic and shut primary schools in London to counter the rapid spread of a more infectious variant of the coronavirus.

With more than 50,000 new daily cases of COVID-19 for the past four days, the country’s health service said it was preparing for an anticipated rush of patients.

The announcement came just days after the Royal London Hospital told staff in an email it was now in “disaster medicine mode” and…