The British government is tapping into the military to ease staffing shortages across London hospitals caused by a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak
The UK Ministry of Defence announced Friday it would deploy 200 personnel to hospitals across the capital, where the number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 reached 4,000 this week, more than triple what it was just a month ago.At the same time, around 10,000 National Health Service staff in London are currently off work due to Covid-19, according to data from NHS England. Across England, more than 82,000 health care workers were absent due to the coronavirus as of January 2.
'Riding it out'The deployment of military personnel comes just days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested England can "ride out" the current wave of the pandemic without further lockdowns.Speaking on Tuesday, Johnson said that while the UK was seeing the fastest growth in the number of new Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, evidence so far suggests the Omicron variant is milder than other strains.
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