HANOI - Vietnam is close to completing the conversion of a sports stadium into a 1,000-bed field hospital in its new coronavirus epicentre Danang, the health ministry said on Thursday , as it battles an outbreak that has spread to at least 11 locations.
Danang's Tien Son Sports Palace will from Saturday be used to treat an overflow of infected patients should the city's hospitals become overwhelmed, said the company behind the project, Sun Group. If infection numbers stabilise, the facility would be used to isolate people who were in direct contact with a positive case, as part of Vietnam's centralised quarantine programme, Sun Group said.
Most recent cases have links to three hospitals in Danang, a coastal city that was until recently inundated with domestic tourists capitalising on holiday promotions and easing restrictions.
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