Last month the Joint Biosecurity Centre recommended that the covid-19 alert level should move from Level 4, defined as a covid-19 epidemic in general circulation where transmission is high, to Level 3 – where a covid-19 epidemic is in general circulation.

Throughout that transition the number of covid-19 patients who have stepped inside one of the seven new NHS Nightingale hospitals for treatment has been thankfully negligible. To an extent the NHS Nightingale Hospital Birmingham, which Interserve Construction delivered in just two weeks of frenzied activity during April, is all but redundant, pending a second wave.

That is a testament to the British public’s willingness to adopt the government’s rules and the fantastic service provided by the doctors and nurses of the NHS.

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