translated from Spanish: Mexico to turn autodrome into hospital for COVID-19

Mexico is in Phase 3 of the coronavirus epidemic and authorities expect the peak of the disease to hit next week in most of the country’s states, including the capital where head of government Claudia Sheinbaum has reported that some of its public hospitals have become saturated. As of Saturday night, health authorities in the country reported 22,088 people infected and 2,061 deaths. Robledo on Sunday took a tour to oversee the progress of transformation work at the racetrack, which has hosted Formula One races for the past five years, in its third stage as host of the top category of motorsport in the world. The track was the first venue for Formula One races between 1962 and 1970, then experienced a second era between 1986 and 1992 and ceased to be 2015, when tests resumed in facilities that were modernized. The next Formula One race in Mexico is scheduled for Sunday, November 1.” It will soon become a hospital that we call expansion, in Mexico City we have 17 hospitals that have been converted to care for COVID patients, that is to say that beds, doctors and resources are used to attend the pandemic, but as we have insisted are always needed more as in this case, hospital beds,” Robledo said in a video posted on his Twitter account.In the area of paddocks and suites , which is located in the main straight of the autodrome, eight modules will be installed in which 24 beds will be placed in each, while in the pitts area, where in a race the Formula 1 cars enter to attend mechanical faults and change tires, offices will be placed to serve the public that presents symptoms and there will be determined if they require internments. Other areas of the sports facility will be used to install dining rooms, walk-in closets and warehouses. Lucila Olvera, the medical infrastructure holder of the Mexican Social Security Institute, reported that the work, which began last week, has been a 15 percent advance and that the transformation must be completed to receive patients starting May 13. In total, the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez will have 26 beds for intensive therapy and 192 for convalescent patients with minor symptoms of the disease.” This is a hospital that allows us to have more beds, especially for patients with mild symptoms, but who require hospitalization and who cannot go home and bring, in the case of contagion, the disease on an outpatient basis,” Robledo explained. “Today more than ever is when in Mexico City we need to grow up and that anyone who needs a bed can have it.” Meanwhile, in Bolivia a historic indigenous leader of the Amazon entered intensive therapy with symptoms of the disease on Sunday at a time when the Andean country recorded the highest number of new cases (241) in a day. Marcial Fabricano, 67 years old and of the Mojeño-Trinitarian ethnic group who led in the 1990s a march to reclaim ancestral territories of his people, was admitted to a hospital in the city of Trinidad, in the northeast of Bolivia, according to the authorities. The eve of the same area of the country crashed, a plane in which its six occupants died, including four Spaniards seeking repatriation. Trinidad hospital director Marco Rojas said the sinister aircraft carried 49 COVID-19 tests to the city of Santa Cruz in the east, where the laboratories are. As of Sunday, Bolivia had 1,399 contagions, with 71 deaths, including a second policeman who died on Saturday. In Chile, two months after the first contagion, 1,228 new cases were reported bringing the country closer to 20,000 and 13 more victims that put death tolls in 260, while the authorities insisted on their call not to “lose the battle of Santiago”, where most infections are concentrated. Authorities condemned a clandestine holiday the night before in the neighborhood of Maipú, in the south of the capital, where more than 400 people were concentrated.” If we do not seriously with all the energy the battle of Santiago, the war against COVID will be lost,” warned Health Minister Jaime Mañalich. Festivals like Maipú’s are “a risk to all.” In Argentina, with 4,681 cases and 241 dead, the chancellery announced the schedule of 19 flights that from Sunday to May 10 will repatriate 3,323 Argentines from Barcelona, Bogota, Miami, Cancun, Guayaquil, Quito, Santiago, Sao Paulo, London, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Florianópolis.” All flights were agreed strictly following health measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic in our country,” he said. In Uruguay, where positive cases amount to 652, the authorities reported that 97 of these infections affected health workers. They explained that 79 of them have already recovered, 17 are in the disease and one died. A total of 17 people have been killed by COVID-19 in Uruguay.In Latin America, more than 224,000 were infected and nearly 12,400 people were killed, with Brazil leading the lead to infections and deaths. Coronavirus has infected more than 3.4 million people and killed more than 244,000 worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering, which bases its data on reports from governments and health authorities in each country. In most people this virus causes mild or moderate symptoms that disappear in two to three weeks, but in some people, especially older adults and those with underlying health disorders, it can cause more serious illnesses and even death.



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