Calgary Herald

What are smaller countries doing to alleviate overflowin­g hospitals?

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In the Netherland­s, the Ahoy concert hall in Rotterdam that normally hosts large concerts, trade fairs and internatio­nal sports events and should have hosted the Eurovision song contest in May is now being turned into an emergency hospital with up to 680 beds. These will be for people with the coronaviru­s or other illnesses who need care but do not have to be admitted to a hospital. Hotels are also being used across the Netherland­s, which has a population of 17 million people. By Monday, there were 11,750 confirmed coronaviru­s infections, with 864 deaths.

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