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Cyber nightmare: NHS turning back hundreds of patients as their IT systems are still down




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The National Health Service in the UK has suffered from a major worldwide cyber attack, so much so that UK hospitals are turning back hundreds of patients across Britain.

What’s being described as a “cyber apocalypse”, has now affected more than 70 countries across the world.

There’s now a warning of a full weekend of chaos if not longer.

Doctors have been forced to pass xray images to each other over their phones and write reports by longhand..

The story is developing across with the world with still no idea of where the attack came from.

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