The NHS Nightingale Hospital, built in just nine days in response to the coronavirus crisis, has opened to its first patients.
The facility, on the site of the ExCeL Centre in the Docklands in east London, has capacity for between 4,000 and 5,000 beds.
And today it admitted its first wave of patients. NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens has called its construction "nothing short of extraordinary".
He added: "Now we are gearing up to repeat that feat at another four sites across the country to add to the surge capacity in current NHS hospitals." Most recent figures show that across the capital, 899 people have died in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.