Venues double as Covid-19 testing centres

The 11,000-cap. SSE Arena Belfast is lending its services for drive-through testing, as live event spaces worldwide continue to open up for medical purposes

The car park of the SSE Arena Belfast is being used as a drive-through testing centre © SSE Arena Belfast

Venues around the world are showing their versatility in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, as more and more transform into emergency field hospitals and others start serving as drive-through testing centres.

As the UK government looks to ramp up its coronavirus testing capacity, major venues around the country are transforming into testing centres.

The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is among such venues. Tests will be administered to NHS workers via a drive-through system in the car park…

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