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UK to move covid patients to hotels after 35,000 record hospital admission

By alternativeafrica
January 14, 2021
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London, Jan. 14, 2021 (AltAfrica)-The NHS UK is considering plans to discharge patients into hotels as hospitals become swamped with COVID patients, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed – as he said it was “impossible to know” how long lockdown restrictions might last.

Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock attends a remote press conference to update the nation on the status of the Covid-19 pandemic, inside 10 Downing Street in central London on December 23, 2020. He now says UK may have to move covid patients to hotels after 35,000 record hospital admission (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth / POOL / AFP) (Photo by KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Mr Hancock told Sky News that the government would “look at all options” to relieve pressures on the NHS, with more than 35,000 coronavirus patients currently in hospitals across the UK.

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“There are huge pressures on the NHS and, as you’d expect, we’re looking to all different ways that we can relieve those pressures,” he said.

The health secretary said the NHS Nightingale Hospital in London had begun taking patients as “back-up”, but that ministers had alternative plans “in case there’s more that’s needed”.

Hospital ICUs are under severe pressure as tens of thousands more infections are confirmed each day (Sky News Image)

Asked about reports thousands of NHS patients could be discharged early from hospitals to hotels or their own homes to free up beds, Mr Hancock said: “We’d only ever do that if it was clinically the right thing for somebody.

“But in some cases, people need step-down care, they don’t actually need to be in a hospital bed.

“We work very closely with the social care sector to make sure that capacity is available. But we look at all options.

“So this isn’t a concrete proposal by any means, but it’s something we look at, because we look at all contingencies

The UK hotels decision came same day the country recorded another 1,564 coronavirus deaths-the highest daily figure since the pandemic began following the late addition of some data going as far back as May.

The previous highest increase was 1,325, which was reported on 8 January.

Some Conservative MPs are putting pressure on ministers to begin easing England’s third national lockdown from 8 March.

But the health secretary said it was “impossible to know” how long the restrictions might have to be in place for.

“We will keep the restrictions in place not a moment longer than they are necessary, but we will keep them in place as long as they’re necessary,” Mr Hancock said.

The government is aiming to offer 15 million of the most vulnerable people a first dose of a COVID vaccine by 15 February, with the health secretary saying the vaccination programme is “on track” to meet that deadline.

More than 2.8 million coronavirus jabs have so far been given to more than 2.4 million people across the UK.

Asda announced on Wednesday it will begin providing vaccinations from an in-store pharmacy in Birmingham in the last week of January.

Mr Hancock said: “The measures that we’ve got in place, that we hope to be able to lift, that we should be able to lift when we’ve been able to protect through vaccination of those who are vulnerable.”

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