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Coronavirus: South Korea uses shipping containers for hospital beds amid resurgence Park Chan-kyong in Seoul © AP Workers put in place a temporary hospital ward made of shipping containers outside the Seoul Medical Centre on Thursday. Photo: AP Shipping containers are being transformed into temporary hospital beds as South Korean medical facilities hit capacity amid what health officials have dubbed the most difficult challenge the country has yet faced in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. Infections in South Korea, which for months had been praised for containing the virus through an aggressive regime of testing, tracing and distancing, have surged to almost 700 from just 100 within the past month.

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