More beds for MAEPS and ICUs


Through rain or shine: Frontliners helping shield a patient from the pouring rain as he arrives at the Covid-19 Assessment Centre at Malawati Stadium. — KK SHAM/The Star

PETALING JAYA: The government will increase the capacity of the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park in Serdang’s (MAEPS) Covid-19 quarantine and low-risk treatment centre (PKRC) to ease the pressure on hospitals.

“We will increase the capacity to 10,000 (beds) in the complex (MAEPS), ” said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.

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