The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has announced that the Ice Palace will cease to be used as a morgue from next Wednesday before the reduction of deaths from coronavirus in the region. He also reported that the temporary hospital of Ifema will stop working "at the end of May" because the fairground must "return to normal as soon as possible."
This has been advanced this Sunday by the president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in a videoconference with journalists, after the meeting she has had with the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
This hospital, specifically for patients with coronavirus, has accumulated so far a total of 3,150 discharges, 84 percent of the patients admitted, and maintains a total of 557 beds occupied (with eight in the ICU).
As reported by the regional president, her government is already working on "new infrastructure" to be able to fight the virus if there is a second outbreak. "Ifema has to change, it is a space for congresses and exhibitions and it is necessary to return to normality."
With the closure of the morgue of the Ice Palace, the Community closes two of the spaces enabled to accumulate the coffins of the deceased by covid-19 due to the collapse of the funeral parlors, since last Tuesday the third space enabled, the Palace Ice Majadahonda. Only the morgue of the City of Justice would remain in operation, in what was to be the Institute of Legal Medicine.
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