© news18.comUS Open Venue to Host 350-bed Temporary Hospital Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
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The site of the US Open tennis tournament in New York will be used to build a 350-bed facility in an effort to provide additional medical infrastructure to the city as it battles the growing coronavirus outbreak.
A report in The Wall Street Journal said that New York city’s emergency management office plans to build a 350-bed facility at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
The report said construction could begin as early as Tuesday at an indoor training center at the facility, which has multiple courts and wide spaces, according to a spokesman for the US Tennis Association.