Coronavirus: UK’s Prince Charles opens NHS Nightingale critical care unit in London – The National

Coronavirus: UK’s Prince Charles opens NHS Nightingale critical care unit in London – The National

Coronavirus: UK's Prince Charles opens NHS Nightingale critical care unit in London. Britain's Prince Charles has formally opened NHS Nightingale, a 4,000-bed field hospital in east London, built in just nine days to address the country's coronavirus crisis.. The NHS Nightingale will open its doors to patients struck by Covid-19 with an initial 500 beds.. The Prince of Wales completed a period of self-isolation earlier this week following his own Covid-19 diagnosis.. "It is without doubt a spectacular and almost unbelievable feat of work in every sense, from its speed of construction, in just nine days as we've heard, to its size and the skills of those who have created it," Prince Charles said.. Britain's Health Secretary, who has also been forced to self-isolate after being diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, praised all those involved in the setting up of the hospital calling it an "extraordinary project".. "In the troubled times with this invisible killer stalking the whole world, the fact that in this country we have the NHS is even more valuable than before," the health secretary said.. British authorities, like governments across the world have, scrambled to adapt to the public health emergency posed by the coronavirus..