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London hospitals facing ‘tsunami’ of virus patients: NHS official

Pedestrians in masks walk along Westminster Bridge with the London Eye in the backgroud, in a quiet central London on March 25, 2020, after Britain's government ordered a lockdown to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. - AFPPedestrians in masks walk along Westminster Bridge with the London Eye in the backgroud, in a quiet central London on March 25, 2020, after Britain's government ordered a lockdown to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. - AFP

LONDON: Hospitals in the British capital are being overwhelmed by Covid-19 patients, the head of an organisation representing bosses in the state-run National Health Service said on Thursday.

The chief executive of NHS Providers, Chris Hopson, told BBC radio that London hospitals had seen an “explosion of demand... in seriously ill patients”, likening it to a “continuous tsunami”. - AFP

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