Local governments in Japan are scurrying to set up temporary treatment sites for COVID-19 patients as the recent surge in infections has caused a serious shortage of hospital beds across the country, with 25 governments having already opened or are planning to open such facilities, a Kyodo News survey found Saturday.The nationwide survey, conducted from Aug. 26 to Sept. 2, also found, however, that most of the governments are facing difficulty in securing doctors and health care workers to operate such sites.Record levels of COVID-19 cases, triggered by the spread of the more transmissible …READ FULL ARTICLE
