Coronavirus: How NHS Nightingale was built in just nine days
The ExCeL centre's suitability for the hospital site goes beyond the functional characteristics of the building.
It will be led by a team of eight senior staff, drawn from local hospitals and trusts. At capacity, the hospital will need 16,000 staff to keep it running. That will include thousands of doctors, nurses and volunteers. The nursing staff is being drawn from other hospitals, as well as volunteers from St John Ambulance. Airline staff from Easyjet and Virgin Atlantic have also been approached.
Other temporary morgues are also being set up around the UK, including at an ice rink in Milton Keynes, a crematorium in Ruislip, and at Birmingham Airport, where the hangar facility will initially have space for 1,500 bodies"but will expand to hold more".Preparations are also being made to expand the NHS Nightingale-style hospitals beyond London.
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