The 68-bed hospital was built to receive patients after New York City recorded more than 36,000 cases of nCoV and nearly 800 deaths.

The 68-bed field hospital in Central Park will start operating on March 31, built with the cooperation of Central Park's management agency, Mount Sinai Hospital. and humanitarian organization Samaritan's Purse, New York mayor Bill de Blasio said.

This is part of an effort to reduce the burden of Covid-19 treatment hospitals in New York City, in the context that local health authorities need to triple the number of beds before May 1 to cope with the epidemic. .

US President Donald Trump previously dispatched the USNS Comfort hospital ship with a capacity of 1,000 beds to New York City. The ship was incapable of treating Covid-19, but could take ordinary patients to hospitals to concentrate on anti-epidemic. USNS Comfort docked in New York on March 30 and is expected to operate soon.

The United States is currently the largest epidemic region in the world with more than 145,000 nCoV infections and more than 2,600 deaths. New York is the most heavily affected state with nearly 60,000 cases and more than 1,000 deaths, of which more than 36,000 people are infected with nCoV and 790 people die in the city of the same name.

Central Park is over 340 hectares, located on Manhattan Island of New York City.