The Nightingale Hospital being built at the Birmingham NEC is set to be open and fully operational on April 12 senior regional health chiefs have said.
Practice will begin on April 10, with doors fully open to patients two days later.
The site, on the outskirts of Birmingham, initially will have capacity or 500 beds which can then be scaled up to an increased capacity of 1,500.
The NHS Nightingale Hospitals are emergency sites to treat the large, increasing overflow of patients with coronavirus.
The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has said that two more Nightingale Hospitals have been set for Bristol, in Gloucestershire and Harrogate, in Yorkshire.
In the Covid-19 daily press briefing, he explained: “The Bristol Nightingale will have a capacity of up to 1,000 beds. The capacity for Harrogate will be 500”.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis, Hancock said the number of critical care beds have been boosted by more than 2,500 – before the addition of the Nightingale Hospitals.
With he himself just recently out of isolation after contracting coronavirus, the Health Secretary added that it means that 2,000 of the beds are now free and available.
