Osaka to reuse Olympic cardboard beds for COVID-19 patients

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura said Saturday he wants the cardboard beds athletes slept on at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics to be made available for COVID-19 patients.The recyclable beds from the athletes' village in Tokyo are likely to be used at a temporary medical facility to be set up by the western Japan prefecture by the end of this month."Those beds were for Olympians and they are high quality," Yoshimura told reporters.About 800 of the beds, which were designed to support people up to 200 kilograms in weight, and pillows used during the Tokyo Games are expected to be transferred…READ FULL ARTICLE