CORONAVIRUS LATEST: • U.S. Open tennis complex to transform into temporary hospital. • Pandemic of novel coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 37,000 people across the globe. • There are now more than 787,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19.
3:30 a.m.: US Open tennis complex to transform into temporary hospital
USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier told The Associated Press that an area of indoor courts at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the New York City borough of Queens will be used for 350 temporary hospital beds starting Tuesday. Meanwhile, kitchens at Louis Armstrong Stadium -- the second-largest arena of the Grand Slam tennis tournament -- will be used for preparing 25,000 meal packages per day for patients, workers, volunteers and schoolchildren in New York City.
Beds are lined up in a tent as volunteers from the international Christian relief organization Samaritans Purse set up an emergency field hospital for patients suffering from the novel coronavirus in Central Park across Fifth Avenue from Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City on March 30, 2020.With more than 38,000 diagnosed cases and nearly 1,000 deaths, New York City is the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
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