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Cape Town convention centre to be 800-bed Covid-19 hospital

Cape Town International Convention Centre is being converted into a temporary hospital with room for 800 patients

The Cape Town International Convention Centre has been repurposed as a Covid-19 field hospital, and there is optimism that postponed events due to be held there will go ahead in the next two years.
The Cape Town International Convention Centre has been repurposed as a Covid-19 field hospital, and there is optimism that postponed events due to be held there will go ahead in the next two years. (cticc via Google)

Cape Town International Convention Centre is being converted into a temporary hospital with room for 800 patients.

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said on Wednesday the hospital would make up most of the province's predicted 1,000-bed shortfall at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

This is a developing story.

-TimesLIVE


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