Cameras have been allowed inside a huge new hospital that will provide care for more than 4,000 coronavirus patients when it is up and running.
Footage from inside the NHS Nightingale gives a glimpse of the sheer scale of the facilitity.
Rows of beds, each fitted with medical apparatus, run down the halls of the hospital, which has been constructed at lightning pace inside the ExCel Centre in Canning Town, East London.
NHS Nightingale is made up of two wards, each with capacity for 2,000 patients.
Construction has been carried out by NHS staff, along with engineers from the British army.
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A further two facilities are planned at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre (NEC) and the Manchester Central Convention Complex.
Manchester Central Convention Complex will add 500 more beds from mid-April, with the capacity to expand to 1,000.
The NEC will provide care for 5,000 patients, while Cardiff's Principality Stadium will also be used to provide space for up to 2,000 more beds.
During a visit to NHS Nightingale Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said the new hospitals would start taking patients later this week
He said: "Today there are over 9,000 positive coronavirus patients in hospitals across England and we know that number is only going to increase.
"That's why what you see here is a mass mobilisation, taking place right across the country, but also at these new Nightingale hospitals.
"This has been an extraordinary team effort on the part of nurses and doctors and therapists and pharmacists across London, but also volunteers and paramedics and people returning to help.
"And when these services are needed, they will be available beginning later this week, and because this is a global health emergency we're actually seeing similar types of hospitals being established in Berlin and Madrid and New York."
In a statement, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said military planners and engineers had been working "hand in hand" with the NHS to support their development of NHS Nightingale.
"The Armed Forces have already been distributing personal protective equipment (PPE) to meet the increased demand and we stand ready to assist further in any capacity needed," he said.
“The NHS and our Armed Forces are both world leaders in their fields, and this ambitious project is just one example of what can be achieved when they come together to help the nation."
A number of Army medics will also be supporting the NHS nurses, doctors and other staff from across the health service.
Speaking of the race to increase NHS capacity, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "With the help of the military and with NHS clinicians we will make sure that we have the capacity that we need so that everyone can get the support that they need."
Staff at Virgin Atlantic and EasyJet have been invited to volunteer at the new hospitals. Their salaries will continue to be paid by the airlines.
Many first-aid trained cabin crew across the world have been grounded as countries have closed borders and cancelled flights amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
EasyJet has already written to its 9,000 UK-based staff including 4,000 cabin crew trained in CPR to invite them to give their time to the NHS.
Virgin Atlantic will begin writing to 4,000 of its employees on Monday and will prioritise getting in touch with those who already have the required skills.
