Shocking photos show the UK's flagship Nightingale Hospital lying empty as coronavirus cases continue to rocket.
The temporary hospital appears to be stripped bare despite the new mutant Covid that grips the country.
A total 4,000 beds could be offered at the east London facility but photos show empty rooms without staff or lifesaving equipment.
With mounting pressure on hospitals and growing numbers being admitted each day, many are questioning why the Nightingales have not been reopened.
Health chiefs are being urged to put them to use and start treating patients as London saw case numbers double within one week.
Meanwhile they admit the new mutant strain of Covid-19 is heading north, with cases found "everywhere" across England.
It comes after Boris Johnson introduced a new Tier 4 lockdown across the South East while the Government meet today to consider a nationwide lockdown immediately after Christmas
Seven Nightingale Hospitals were built at the start of the pandemic including at London ExCel, costing around £220 million.
But the flagship centre was closed shortly after and the ExCel says 90 per cent of the building has now returned to normal.
Richard Tice, chairman of Brexit party Reform UK, wants answers after visiting the site.
He told The Sun : "The removal of the hospital is so complete that you wouldn’t know it had ever existed.
“Hundreds of millions of pounds spent on the Nightingale hospitals has been wasted as they’ve been dismantled.”
Other Nightingale Hospitals throughout the country remain empty including the Nightingale at the NEC in Birmingham.
The city could join London and the south east in a Tier 4 lockdown before Christmas following a Government meeting.
While the Nightingale Hospital at Sunderland, which can provide up to 460 ventilated beds in the north east, is also on standby.
Other centres include Manchester, Exeter, Harrogate and Bristol.
