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  • So when people arrive our clinic, they'll be made to the front door by our security guards.

  • Martin, for he will do is bring people in, and they'll be asked to use our hand sanitizer.

  • This facility didn't exist last week and asked to stand behind the line, and at this point you'll be given a master cone.

  • It's for Corona virus patients.

  • Only until a few days ago, they might have been sent to GP practises.

  • Instead that we brought into clinical room, we will be assessed.

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  • Surgeries across Scotland now have a new defense against this virus.

  • Keeping it is far from their buildings as possible.

  • When someone with Corona virus symptoms is asked to go and see their GP, there's a risk they infect the surgery staff on other patients.

  • When in Scotland, they've come up with an entirely new network of Corona virus assessment centers, buildings that have been staffed and kitted out in just a couple of weeks, dedicated only to Corona virus.

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  • Not Carrie.

  • How you doing?

  • All right.

  • Thank you.

  • Very well.

  • Hi, nines.

  • Hello.

  • I trust my team today in Glasgow.

  • This new center was set up in 10 days.

  • Why is it important to keep the Corona virus patients separate in this one?

  • So one of the biggest rest is infectivity of forbid that actually, patients usually are changing.

  • Our GP practice often might have multiple other medical conditions diabetes, heart disease, change disease.

  • And actually, they're not High Restaurant theatre.

  • They're the ones that we defeat, Composited called it.

  • They're not much higher rest, so we can try and see them in a way, whether it's reduced a chance of being infected by Corbett.

  • That works far better for that population.

  • The centers are appointment only first.

  • You go through 111 on the Special Corona Virus hotline from your description of your symptoms, and there's nothing that you're saying that makes me think we need to send you to the hospital or anything like that in Edinburgh.

  • That means this team of GPS, Dr Patel, delayed her retirement this week to join this fledgling workforce.

  • Some of those stories that I've been hearing this morning have bean terrible.

  • Some people have been very surprised how how bad the Kobe 19 symptoms have bean from.

  • I commiserated with them because they they are suffering.

  • How different is it what's happening elsewhere in the country?

  • I think it's unique in the UK this system linking the rest of the country.

  • Patients are still forming their general practice in the detain.

  • A GPS relieved that this is happening for their own safety.

  • Yes, they are a lot.

  • GPS are in buildings that might not be suitable to separate patient floors out, and they were getting a lot of demand on top of their normal demands.

  • I think practices are very relieved.

  • This is happening.

  • Wendy and all the staff here in Glasgow were redeployed, choosing to be face to face with Corona virus so others don't have to.

  • Did you think twice about doing what you're doing?

  • No, not really, No.

  • I decided that I had a comfortable, though, is a silly thing to do.

  • But then others remember this is wanting to do it.

  • Yes, that's what I do.

  • You're there on the front line, dealing with patients who are suspected of having Corona virus.

  • Everyone else in society is running a mile from those sorts of situations, aren't they?

  • Yeah, but actually our stuff being absolutely phenomenal.

  • We cannot thank you enough.

  • Every single person has really stayed tough and going above the old people in years to come and play a role on they're very happy with you.

  • They're only getting started here.

  • They know the worst is still to come now.

  • Politicians in Scotland of this week begged people not to flock to the country's remote beauty spots, worried that limited health care and other resources will simply be overwhelmed.

  • But some of the smallest communities are banding together to help each other, from public handwashing stations to scrambling together protective gear for their N H s workers.

  • This is the story of one village is response to this new way of life from ballot Foolish in the highlands are chief correspondents Alex Thompson bullish in Bala Polish.

  • No committee, no bureaucrats.

  • Just welding from scrap metal volunteers had it done and loaded up in just six hours delivered to the coop front door.

  • Whether the court liked it or no, Dr C is the friend of this virus, without a doubt on organizations that are set up in a certain way to act really slowly are not gonna work.

  • What you need is a rapid community led organization.

  • Nor is the community well across the road, and the village health alert system is up and running signs up all over the village, and this one speaks for itself.

  • Things okay?

  • You got the green cross on the green thumbs up.

  • However, if things are not looking too good, somebody's ill.

  • It all changes.

  • Red Cross thumbs down on on the back of this sign, there's all sorts of immediate medical information numbers to call on what to do if you suspect you've got the virus.

  • And not only that, as we'll see in a moment villages out patrolling, we'll just check.

  • Make sure that's still a green by night and by day, volunteer Angus checks if any green signs have gone red.

  • Forget not everyone has Internet or a smartphone.

  • Like many here, he says the shortage of protective equipment is getting critical.

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  • I think we're dealing Step up.

  • The game one is looking for peopIe and stuff, but it's quite Clayton Aziz.

  • You see a genuine shortage of peopie here.

  • Yeah, really shocking, very frightened in the situation with you and for all the creators and for all the people that they go, you get on, you gotta go in your patrol going.

  • It's time the old slate quarry embolus foolish striking Quarrymen and the doctor who supported them once laid the basis for today's N HS here generations ago.

  • Now it's a marshalling yard channeling protective gear to yes, the N Hs.

  • Where you getting this stuff from this thing?

  • This stuff came from a hard rock quarry on their way West Coast hand sanitizer We got from the local press process and want first delivery in the village.

  • Next up, Blanco paramedics and finally, the Fort William Health Center.

  • We fully support Neal's request to the construction industry countrywide UK wide to look in the store.

  • Cupboards get their pp three people, three masks out on organized to take them to your local hospital or your local assessment center for the covert 19.

  • Inside, Nurse Jane Moran lists limited protective equipment.

  • Happy to be broadcast, doing so WeII times because that's masks along the road from the village to Glencoe, homemade signs speak to a bruising few days here.

  • The weekend saw electricity contractors self isolating in Glynco but surrounded by hordes of tourists.

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  • No, yesterday before she what we do you Yeah, there's people here from L A.

  • I don't know how to be a couple fours and stations.

  • Did you get one from from L a far away?

  • Yeah, Blanco ski centers figures had almost 1000 people on the mountain on Saturday.

  • At that point, Niall MacLean had had enough.

  • Get on the news On what?

  • Natalie, this is one of the things are definitely okay.

  • But at the weekend, of course, the ski center.

  • We're doing absolutely nothing wrong in law.

  • Villages then began blocking lay bys to stop the camper vans using cones, dragging rocks.

  • Even a dead deer used for one lay by way won't show you that.

  • So resilience takes many forms.

  • Here they have a drone delivery system, airborne paracetamol to remote homes.

  • Let's just say it's unclear if anybody actually asked the Forestry Commission.

  • But as from this morning, the local energy supply is taken care of.

  • So can do.

  • Attitudes are doing here and across Britain.

  • But remember, talk the Douglases orders.

  • Get your company's protective gear to the N.

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  • Get it there tonight.

  • Alex Thompson, Channel four news ballot.

So when people arrive our clinic, they'll be made to the front door by our security guards.

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