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'As well as freeing up the 33,000 hospitals beds across our current English NHS hospitals, we are also taking these unprecedented steps to build in a few days hospitals that would normally take years' - NHS England Chief Executive Sir Simon Stevens

Italy's death toll rises by 969 - believed to be the sharpest hike in fatalities of any countryEngland's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, is self-isolating at home with symptomsThe number of deaths in the UK has risen by 181 in a day, taking the total to 759The US now has more than 85,000 cases - overtaking ChinaAustralia is to quarantine all returning citizens in hotelsBy Gavin Stamp, Emlyn Begley, Sophie Williams, Jonathan Jurejko, Jasmine Taylor-Coleman, Deirdre Finnerty, George...

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