Sweden Opens New Field Hospital

Sweden is opening a field hospital at a trade fair complex in Sweden with a capacity for 600 patients.

Originally, the hospital in Aelvsjoe will take up to 140 to ease the burden on the capital's hospitals, as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase. The Swedish armed forces have built the building.

In Sweden, 401 people have died from coronavirus and there are 6,830 current cases, Johns Hopkins University reports.

More than half the deaths were in the Stockholm area.

Like nearby Denmark and Germany, Sweden did not enforce a lockout, so there were already loads of shoppers in the city over the weekend.

The authorities have urged the Swedes to: remain at home if they are over 70 or have flu symptoms; operate from home whenever possible; stop non-essential travel and avoid huge crowds. Social-distance has been recommended.

Source: BBC