Britain's Ministry of Defence says that it has begun the deployment of the military to support hospitals experiencing staff shortages and extreme pressures due to record Covid-19 cases in the country, Reuters reports.

The government said that 200 Armed Forces personnel had been made available to support the National Health Service in London for the next three weeks.

Britain has seen a surge in coronavirus cases due to the Omicron variant and has reported over 150,000 new cases each day over the last week.

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