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A huge temporary hospital could be set up at the GMEX to care for hundreds of Manchester coronavirus patients

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A temporary hospital could be set up at the Manchester Central convention centre to care for coronavirus patients, the M.E.N.

understands. Today the health secretary announced the first such facility in London, at the ExCel centre in the Docklands. That hospital - to be known as NHS Nightingale - will care for thousands of patients at a time and has been set up with the help of the military.

But defence sources told the Guardian earlier today that ‘more than one’ would be needed nationwide and the M.E.N. has now learned one has been proposed at the MCCC, formerly known as the GMEX.

The centre will not be able to accommodate as many patients as the ExCel - which is roughly five times its size - but is still likely to be able to hold hundreds

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