Thai volunteers on Wednesday turned a cargo warehouse at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport into a 1,800-bed field hospital for COVID-19 patients with less severe symptoms, as the country deals with its biggest outbreak to date.
The Southeast Asian nation reported a daily record of 16,533 new cases, plus 133 new deaths on Wednesday, bringing the total accumulated cases to 543,361 and 4,397 deaths.Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox
"But if patients' conditions deteriorate, they will be moved to our other field hospital called Pitak Rachan Field Hospital," he added.
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