The UK has further ramped up preparations today, with the country going into full emergency mode, being split into districts, each with a joint HQ, coordinating, security, health and supply, with attached military units.

Three 4,000 bed hospitals are planned (or are already being created) in exhibition centers too.

Some 20,000 retired medical professionals have returned to the NHS, along with the deployment of many mentored final year medical students.
They may prove critical in keeping things going, when you consider the 24 hour, three shift nature of this and allowing perhaps 30-40% of staff to get infected and be dropping out for 14 days isolation at any one time.

It will be a close run thing, if it gets as bad as expected, but the efforts being made are impressive and make you proud to be Britishicon . . A new Battle of Britain is about to rage.

The public is being prepared for this lockdown to last 3 to 6 months, depending how successful it is in slowing the rate of infection to a controllable rate.

Other European countries, like Swedenicon are apparently doing absolutely nothing!

Perhaps they think a small population, spread out, will help control the infection rates....

A risky strategy if you ask me!

Any country that doesn't make maximum effort to control the rate of infection until it eventually burns out through lack of new hosts , will pay a very high price in mortality....