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Covid-19: R /Madrid open up Bernabeu as Lagos converts Onikan stadium

 

Real Madrid have offered the use of the Bernabeu to help the fight against coronavirus.

The club, in collaboration with the High Council for Sport, have launched a project in the city to help supply and distribute medical supplies.

Their vast Bernabeu ground will offer a space equipped to store donations of medical supplies which will be passed on to the Spanish health authorities.

Real Madrid will also provide a facility for organisations and businesses, particularly those belonging to the sports sector, to leave money or material donations that they wish to make to the Ministry of Health.

Spain is suffering terribly in the grip of the pandemic. The death toll in the country has now surpassed China and is the second highest in the world behind Italy. The pandemic which is holding the world to the jugular has seen corporate world and individuals donating money and materials all aimed at arresting the scourge.

Suspension of leagues across the globe and the effect of the ravaging coronavirus has forced the conversion of certain sporting arena to medical and semi-medical centres.

The Onikan stadium to serve as isolation centre

Nigeria, one of the African countries that has been hit by the pandemic especially the city of Lagos which is not only one of the gateways of the country but also the commercial nerve Centre has been forced to convert the Onikan stadium now called Mobolaji Johnson Sports Arena into isolation Centre.

About six of such Centres are being established in the Centre of Excellency which some have now dubbed ‘Centre of anxiety’ following the rising number of cases.

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Only two cases were initially reported in the state but has since risen to 65 with indicators that the number may further increase this week when the initial 14 days gestation period would have elapsed.

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