Planes, Trains, And Churches: Makeshift Hospitals Treating COVID-19 Patients
- By RFE/RL
A look at the many different spaces, large and small, built to treat the burgeoning numbers of patients afflicted with COVID-19 as concern grew that conventional hospitals would be overwhelmed.
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The Serbian military sets up beds on March 24 inside Hall 1 of the Belgrade Fair to accommodate people who suffer mild symptoms of the coronavirus.
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Serbian soldiers prepare beds in the Belgrade Fair on March 24.
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One of Iran's largest shopping malls was transformed into center to receive patients suffering from the coronavirus in Tehran on April 4.
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Iranian workers in protective clothing in a temporary 2,000-bed hospital for COVID-19 patients set up inside Tehran's international exhibition center on March 26.
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Medical staff attend to patients in a Fangcang shelter hospital, a makeshift facility to treat coronavirus patients in Wuhan, China, on 14 February.
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A sports stadium in Wuhan, China, was converted into a makeshift hospital to treat patients at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
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A medical worker looks through the window of a French high-speed train before evacuating coronavirus patients from Paris to Brittany on April 1.
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Medical staff tend to coronavirus patients aboard a high-speed train at Gare d'Austerlitz station on April 1 in Paris.
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Macedonian soldiers set up beds for the new mobile hospital next to the University Clinic for Infectious Diseases in Skopje on March 31.
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A new mobile hospital next to the University Clinic for Infectious Diseases in Skopje, North Macedonia, prepares to receive coronavirus patients.
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U.S. military personnel walk among cubicles in New York City's Javits Convention Center during the coronavirus outbreak in Manhattan on April 3.
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Hospital beds are placed inside the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City on April 8.
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Medical staff embark patients infected with the coronavirus onto a French Air Force jet on April 3 at the Findel airport in Luxembourg.
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Medical staff work aboard a French Air Force medical Airbus A330 Phenix on March 27.
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Beds for coronavirus patients are set up at the Expo Center in Lahore, Pakistan, on March 26.
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Dutch workers walk inside Rotterdam's Ahoy concert hall, which was meant to host the Eurovision Song Contest in May. The competition was canceled and the venue was converted into an emergency hospital.
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Afghan workers build a makeshift hospital comprising of 100 beds in the western Afghan city of Herat on March 29. Herat has emerged as the epicenter of the country's COVID-19 outbreak.
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Volunteers take a break as they set up beds inside the Novi Sad Fair to accommodate people who suffer mild symptoms of the coronavirus in Novi Sad, Serbia, March 27.
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A German military "Medivac" Airbus in Cologne prepares for departure to Bergamo, Italy, on March 28.
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A medical worker wearing protective gear puts on gloves in a train carriage being used as a temporary quarantine facility in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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Ambulances in the port of Genoa, Italy, drive onto a passenger ship that was transformed into a hospital on March 23.
