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Image copyright Getty Images The UK's newest, and largest, hospital facility is preparing to open its doors to take in coronavirus patients needing intensive care treatment.East London's ExCeL exhibition centre, which normally plays host to lifestyle shows, expos and conferences, has been converted into the temporary NHS Nightingale hospital, with space for 4,000 beds. In…

A UK coronavirus test centre sat empty today — as NHS trusts send hundreds of staff swabs to Germany because the results come back twice as fast. Just 75 workers were tested at drive-through centre Chessington World of Adventures, which shut for lunch. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates 5 Drive-through…

Professor John Newton, director of public health improvement for Public Health England, has been appointed by the government to try and hit ambitious new coronavirus testing targets. Speaking this afternoon at the daily government press conference, Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged to carry out 100,000 tests every day by the end of the month. To meet these…

Some coronavirus patients may suffer brain damage as a result of the devastating infection, doctors around the world are warning.  One Florida patient in his 70s lost the ability to speak at least temporarily, The New York Times reported.  Brain scans of a woman in her 50s taken in Detroit revealed that some of her brain cells…

Social distancing measures may have already reduced the transmission rate of coronavirus, an expert has said. Professor Stephen Powis, medical director of NHS England, said on Thursday that early evidence showed people were no longer passing the virus on to multiple people. He said that without the measures an infected person would, on average, pass…

Public health officials in charge of defending the country from a major pandemic never drew up plans for mass community testing despite warnings from the World Health Organization, The Telegraph can disclose. Emergency planners "did not discuss" the need for community testing because they wrongly believed a new strain of influenza would be the next outbreak…

Image copyright PA Image caption The machines are funded by a donation from a businessman and Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge has obtained the first 10 A hospital has become the first in the UK to start using a quicker coronavirus test for staff and patients.Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge has begun to use the new Samba…