Video report by Ann O'Connor

An emergency ward is being built on a hospital car park in Greater Manchester. to cope with an expected influx of Covid-19 patients.

It is hoped the specialist coronavirus unit at Wigan Infirmary will be up and running in the first week in May and will provide an extra 52 beds.

Silas Nicholls, chief executive of Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We're moving at breakneck speed to get this facility up and clinically operating within the next six weeks.

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