Mexico co-opts F1 track and army barracks as hospitals to treat Covid-19
The country has recorded almost 160,000 cases and more than 19,000 fatalities, the seventh-highest total worldwide
18 June 2020 - 17:04
Mexico City — Mexico has repurposed a Formula One (F1) racetrack, converted a huge convention centre, and put hundreds of beds into military barracks to create new hospital space to ease the strain on its health system in the mounting coronavirus pandemic.
Mexico’s Covid-19 death toll has leapt 14-fold since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador first declared the country had “tamed” the pandemic on April 26...
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