October the 27th, 2020 – The Zagreb Arena has taken quite a different tone than usual, with fun and events being replaced by hospital beds for coronavirus patients as the limited capacities of Croatian medical facilities continue to be stretched thin.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has turned Croatia on its head. The country went from being among the most successful in handling the virus in Europe back in spring when the pandemic first took the continent by storm, with far richer European countries such as the United Kingdom suffering horrendously, to among the worst. Here in the City of Zagreb, the figures have been soaring once again, and the Zagreb Arena is being equipped to deal with patients for whom there may be no hospital beds.
The Zagreb Arena was initially mobilised back in March, when the new coronavirus first managed to penetrate Croatia’s first lines of defense, and it’s certainly enough to cause concern to know that its capacities may well be needed yet again.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, on the 25th of October, as part of the announcement of the new anti-epidemic measures from the National Civil Protection Headquarters, the same body also announced that a decision had been made to mobilise the Zagreb Arena as a tertiary centre for the treatment of coronavirus patients who require professional medical help to cope with their symptoms.
Croatian Health Miniter Vili Beros announced that patients with mild to moderate symptoms will be treated in the Zagreb Arena, with those with worse clinical pictures being given hospital care within proper healthcare facilities.
As previously touched on, the Zagreb Arena was originally last mobilised in March, and the beds prepared for the sick were taken out of it in May.
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