Workers were laying floors and connecting electricity sockets on an expanse of astroturf on Monday as they raced to create a hospital for patients with COVID-19 inside a Welsh professional rugby team's training facility.

General view of Scarlets rugby club main entrance while the training ground is being prepared into a temporary hospital ward, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues. Parc y Scarlets, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Britain, March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden