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Nightingale site in Exeter to receive first coronavirus patients
Officials in Exeter say that the city’s Nightingale Hospital will receive its first coronavirus patients, transferred from Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust.
A spokesperson for the Nightingale Hospital Exeter said on 25 November: “The Nightingale Exeter will accept patients tomorrow who will be transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E), which is very busy. We would ask that the public continue to observe the government’s advice on observing the lockdown and social distancing so that we can keep patients safe.”
Construction work on the Nightingale site in Exeter started in May and was finished in July. Since then it has been used for diagnostic tests throughout the summer, including around 200 CT scans and 100 ultrasounds.
According to official figures from the government, the number of coronavirus patients in hospital in the south-west of England has been rising steadily over previous weeks. Data shows that 437 patients were reported as being in hospital on 1 November, a huge jump from just 34 patients on 1 October.
On 24 November, 968 confirmed coronavirus patients were reported as being in hospital, and 70 patients were reported on the same day as being on mechanical ventilation beds.
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