India opens one of the world’s largest hospitals to fight COVID-19

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India opens one of the world’s largest hospitals to fight COVID-19

By Rashika Kumar

29/06/2020

[Photo: BBC]

India has opened one of the largest hospitals in the world to help fight COVID-19 as health authorities announced the country's biggest one-day increase in the number of new infections.

The Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre, the largest facility of its kind in India, became partly operational on Sunday, with 2,000 of its 10,000 beds available.

The remaining 8,000 beds at the facility, which is located in the Chattarpur area of Delhi, will be in use from Wednesday.

[Source: BBC]

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