Chelsea Owner Offers Club's Hotel To Health Workers Fighting Coronavirus

NHS staff in the frontline against the Covid-19 virus pandemic can be assured they have Chelsea hotel to stay in the course of carrying out their duties. The club's billionaire owner, Roman Abramovich, promised that.

Abramovich offered to grant health workers the access to stay at Chelsea Millenium Hotel for two months, as the coronavirus outbreak hit harder on the United Kingdom with the death toll rising to over 100 and hundreds of patients in quarantine for testing positive for the virus.

Chelsea confirmed the development in a statement that the move was the club owner's initiative to assist the NHS and will cover all the costs incurred for using the facility. The idea is to ease shuttling between home and workplace for the workers in London who already have been doing a long shift since the outbreak.

"Chelsea Football Club is joining the medical response to the coronavirus outbreak in London," the statement reads. "The initiative came from club owner Roman Abramovich and, after contact with the NHS was made Chairman Bruce Buck, it was decided the best way Chelsea can assist the NHS is to provide accommodation for NHS staff."