Slowly Healing: Germany Gears Up For 2nd Virus Wave
April 25, 2020
7:28 am
Left empty as the coronavirus pandemic forced events to be cancelled, Berlin’s exhibition centre Messe is getting a makeover with the help of German soldiers — to reemerge as a hospital in a few weeks’ time.
Wires are still hanging from the ceilings, but when construction is finished, the vast site will be able to host up to 1,000 patients.
Even as Germany begins easing curbs on public life to halt contagion of the virus, authorities are busy ramping up their capacity to deal with a second wave of infections.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly warned that Germany must not …
