Hotels across Spain have been converted into medical care centres to free up beds in hospitals which have been flooded with COVID-19 cases.
An ambulance driver wearing a white protective gown enters a Barcelona hotel and announces the arrival of three new"customers" -- a trio of coronavirus patients discharged from hospital into luxury quarantine.
"Some patients arrive thinking that they were taken out of hospital to be left to die, many people are frightened. I try to make them forget all that," said Aranda, wearing mask and gloves. They are not welcomed by bellhops, but by a team of nurses wearing green or blue gowns, gloves and face masks. In the Madrid region, the hardest-hit area in Spain and the first to adopt the measure, there are now just over 700 patients in quarantine in hotels.
Staff at a nearby health clinic work round the clock to monitor COVID-19 patients recovering in hotels or at home, either in person or virtually, while at the same time still treating people needing help for other ailments. Patients receive four meals a day, which are left outside their rooms. A staff member knocks on the door and the patient must count to five before opening it.
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