Three London hotels to be temporarily converted into Coronavirus isolation centres

Construction company Interserve has been appointed by the Department for Health & Social Care to convert the Holiday Inn Heathrow Ariel hotel, which has been block booked for use as an isolation and quarantine facility should it be required. 

It will be used for international visitors to the UK who develop Coronavirus symptoms, and for Britons who have returned home from countries that have had Covid-19 cases.

Interserve also says it is converting the Holiday Inn Brent Cross, and the Crown Plaza Stockley hotel into isolation units on behalf of the Home Office. 

Both sites will be used to accommodate asylum seekers who exhibit symptoms associated with Covid-19.

The company adds that it has already converted two other facilities into isolation units on behalf of the NHS: at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral; and at a hotel and conference centre at Kents Hill Park in Milton Keynes. These sites were used to quarantine British citizens who were evacuated from Wuhan, in China; the epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak.

It also recently oversaw the first phase of converting the Birmingham NEC conference centre into an auxiliary NHS Nightingale Hospital​​.