Military setting up emergency Covid-19 unit in Thessaloniki

Greece's armed forces are setting up a field hospital with more than 50 beds in the northern city of Thessaloniki as part of plans to tackle a surge in the number of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations, a senior Defense Ministry official said on Monday.

Deputy Defense Minister Alkiviadis Stefanis, who visited the site outside the city's military hospital, said the field hospital would be ready by the end of the week.

"This mobile hospital is being created in case of a particularly difficult situation and as part of the planning that the armed forces always have," Stefanis said, adding that the military always plans based on the worst possible scenario.
The field hospital is to have 50 normal beds for coronavirus patients and two intensive care unit beds.

Thessaloniki has been at the center of a spike in coronavirus cases in Greece, with its...