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Leaked projection warns London will run out of hospital beds due to COVID-19 crisis
Leaked official documents suggest London is at risk of running out of hospital beds within two weeks as the city strains under the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Key points:
- Leaked projections show London could be short of 2,000 hospital beds by January 19 if COVID patient numbers continue at their current rate
- Health minister Matt Hancock says the emergency Nightingale hospital is on standby
- On Wednesday the daily number of deaths from COVID-19 in the UK topped 1,000 for the first time since
Projections leaked to the Health Service Journal (HSJ) showed that even if the number of COVID-19 patients increased at the lowest rate considered likely, London hospitals would be nearly 2,000 acute and intensive beds short by January 19.
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