As SA braces for an onslaught of COVID-19 infections, the state is moving to establish 1,644 emergency field hospitals and quarantine sites to shield a health-care system short of critical-care beds and ventilators.
A total of 2,000 beds for quarantine patients are being installed at the Nasrec Centre in Johannesburg – which is being retrofitted to accommodate patients – and three acute facilities under construction in the Western Cape…..more