There have been people from other fields volunteering to work there, including more than a hundred cabin crew from Virgin Atlantic and EasyJet who are trained in first aid, as well as around 750 from St John’s Ambulance. The size of the project can be gauged by the fact that the largest hospital in the country until now, St George’s in Tooting, in southwest London, has around 1,300 beds. After ordering pubs, bars, restaurants, theatres, gyms and leisure centres across the country to close indefinitely, Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressedthe public on March 23, outlining strict exercise and shopping limits, ordering all shops other than food stores and pharmacies to close, and implementing a ban on public gatheringsof twoor more people. The government is also delivering an unprecedented economic relief package aimed at businesses and individuals hit by the pandemic, which is estimated to costover£400billion. As individuals and groups across the U.K. continue to conduct their daily life in lockdown, we look at the situation in the country and around the world in pictures. (Pictured) Soldiers and private contractors help to prepare the ExCel centre in London, England, which is being made into the temporary NHS Nightingale hospital comprising two wards, each of 2,000 people, to help tackle coronavirus, on March 30. Members of Britain's armed forces stand by London ambulances in a car park at the ExCeL London exhibition center in London on March 29, which has been transformed into a field hospital to help with the novel coronavirus pandemic. A handout photo released by 10 Downing Street shows Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, Jenny Harries (L) and Britain's Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick (R) speaking at a news conference inside 10 Downing Street in London, England on March 29. Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Chancellor Rishi Sunak join in with a national applause to show appreciation for NHS workers across the country, outside 10 Downing Street in London, England on March 26. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe confirmed that the games will be postponed by a year in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Deserted platforms are seen on the underground just after 9am, during what would usually be the busy morning rush hour period, at Monument station in London, England on March 23. Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives a press conference on the ongoing situation with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic with chief medical officer Chris Whitty (L) and Chief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance (R) in Downing Street after he had taken part in the government's emergency Cobra meeting in London, England on March 16. Col Boreham, aged 54, was in the last months of his active service before leaving the army to join the NHS, when he heard that he would be working on this project. We literally got a phone call, I said goodbye to my wife, who is also on the frontline, packed my bergen (rucksack), arrived here, met up with the NHSabout nine days ago, sat around a table and basically did what you always do. It is more the threat one can’t see.” Lieutenant Michael Andrews, 24, of A Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, was in Sierra Leone on a military training mission when he and his colleagues were recalled. Initially we were told we were coming back because they didn’t want us to be stuck in Sierra Leone, obviously with the flights all being cancelled, theydidn’t want us to be stranded. It’s personal because you are helping to lay the foundations for whatis such a momentous and incredible achievement.” Sergeant Mark Anderson, 32, also of A Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, has also served in Iraq, Afghanistan and with the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. It was the sheer magnitude of what was being undertaken at the ExCel Centre and other facilities which makes this mission logistically so different, he said. [But] we have a very flexible capability and the training we deliver to our soldiers is of the highest level to make sure we are ready for any situation or national emergency thrown our way. “We are working with the NHS and other public services on such a large scale, everyone contributes to the main goal, everyone has been working flat out to the best of their ability to get this place up and running in the quickest possible time.” The team said Mr Boreham was driven by a sense of duty to the past, as well as the present and the future: “I have come from a family that has served.
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