The NHS will next week open a new hospital providing support for hundreds rising to several thousand more patients with coronavirus, NHS England announced today. The military operations team in Brecon Barracks is in close contact with the Welsh Government’s Emergency Co-ordination Centre and is providing planning support to Wales’ four regional Local Resilience Forums. Our liaison officers at Joint Military Command Scotland in Stirling are in close contact with the Scottish Government’s Emergency Co-ordination Centre and we are also providing planning support to Scotland’s regional and local resilience partnerships. The armed forces have contributed dozens of specialist military planners to Local Resilience Forums who are providing support to public services, local authorities and emergency services in preparing their response to the coronavirus outbreak. They are part of 20,000 armed forces personnel currently stood at readiness to take part. As of 23 March, there are 250 personnel deployed to assist civil authorities with the response.
On 18 March the Defence Secretary announced a COVID Support Force to assist public services with the response to the coronavirus outbreak. The COVID Support Force is currently supporting the public services to respond to the outbreak with the following activity.
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