Kolkata: Heritage hotel turns into Covid care facility

The Lalit Great Eastern, one of the oldest luxury hotels in Asia, turned into a Covid care centre on Wednesday. The 100-bed satellite centre attached to AMRI Hospitals will cater to mildly symptomatic Covid-19 patients. Struggling to tide over hospital bed crisis, many hospitals are converting hotels, stadia and community halls into Covid facilities. But this is the first hotel with heritage legacy, which had hosted Queen Elizabeth and American author Mark Twain, to turn into a Covid facility.

Kolkata: Heritage hotel turns into Covid care facility
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The Lalit Great Eastern, one of the oldest luxury hotels in Asia, turned into a Covid care centre on Wednesday. The 100-bed satellite centre attached to AMRI Hospitals will cater to mildly symptomatic Covid-19 patients. Struggling to tide over hospital bed crisis, many hospitals are converting hotels, stadia and community halls into Covid facilities. But this is the first hotel with heritage legacy, which had hosted Queen Elizabeth and American author Mark Twain, to turn into a Covid facility.