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Published 07 Jul, 2020 10:00pm

Dubai field hospital bids farewell to last virus patient

Dubai closed its only field hospital set up at a convention centre to treat coronavirus cases after the last patient, a Japanese national, walked out in good health, AFP reported.

Doctors and nurses, still wearing protective gear, lined up clapping for Hiroaki Fujita as he left the Dubai World Trade Centre which was converted to a 3,000-bed field hospital in April to treat virus patients.

“I ask everyone to take a more safer way,” Fujita told AFP. “Feeling very good that I am about to go out.”

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