Dortmund to convert Signal Iduna Park into coronavirus treatment centre
The German club has become the latest to offer their home to local health officials
Borussia Dortmund have announced that Signal Iduna Park will be used as a treatment centre for coronavirus patients.
Starting on Saturday, Dortmund will convert their stadium into a facility to combat the outbreak with the assistance of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of Westphalia-Lippe (KVWL).
The stadium, the largest in German football, will now be used to assist patients that are suspected of having the virus exclusively, not those who have already contracted and are battling the illness.
A treatment wing will be opened in the fourth floor of the north grandstand will be open from noon to 4 pm every day.
“Our stadium is the figurehead of the city, a fixed point for almost everyone in Dortmund and the surrounding area and, thanks to its technical, infrastructural and spatial conditions, the ideal place to actively help people who are potentially infected or over-infected by the coronavirus symptoms such as respiratory diseases and fever,” said CEOs Hans-Joachim Watzke and Carsten Cramer.
