A football stadium in Cameroon has been turned into an accommodation center for coronavirus patients as authorities grapple with a lack of space to admit and treat the growing number of people testing positive for the virus.
Minister of Public Health, Dr Manaouda Malachie, said on Saturday that the Yaounde military stadium will now serve as one of the large capacity centres in the capital expected to increase the country’s management capacity to more than 3,000 beds.
According to the Public Health Minister, the growing number of identified cases of the virus is thanks to a revised government strategy which includes mass generalised testing.
A mass testing campaign began in the country’s economic hub, Douala, with community health workers going around neighborhoods to find potential positive cases.
