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No patients have been admitted to field hospitals across Wales, the Welsh Government has said.

The Principality Stadium, Bluestone National Park Resort, and Parc y Scarlets have all been transformed to help with the care or recovery of Covid-19 patients across Wales over the last few weeks.

But they remain empty as health boards continue to manage the number of coronavirus patients within their hospitals, it has been confirmed.

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A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "Health boards have been able to manage demand and utilise the available space within in-hospital settings thanks to the hard work of health and care staff without having to use the additional capacity provided by field hospitals.

"This is positive news and the system is now in a healthy position to respond to future challenges posed by the pandemic.

"Field hospitals are an important part of our collective wider strategy to respond to the Covid-19 outbreak with initial plans based on the expectation that in-hospital capacity would be exceeded. These facilities will be used flexibly – where necessary – over the coming months and the situation kept under daily review.”

On Monday Len Richards, chief executive of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, shared a picture of the first staff arriving at the newly-named Dragon's Heart Hospital at the Principality Stadium.

As the largest temporary hospital in Wales and the second largest in the UK it will provide up to 2,000 additional beds for Covid-19 patients.

Mr Richards said: "The first staff arrive at Dragon’s Heart Hospital, undergoing induction today and then caring for our first patients tomorrow. The construction companies clapped them in to their first shift."

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In Carmarthenshire a team of builders, contractors and volunteers took just 21 days to transform Parc y Scarlets, two leisure centres, and an events venue into field hospitals to help deal with the current pandemic.

The largest of the group of field hospitals, Ysbyty Enfys Scarlets, will now provide 350 new hospital beds over three sites at the stadium.

Meanwhile over in Bluestone toys and equipment from the site's indoor adventure centre have been removed to create a recovery hospital.

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Last Thursday NHS Wales chief executive Andrew Goodall said all health boards in Wales were at that stage reporting a "green" or level one status.

At the time he said 1,108 people were being treated in hospital with Covid-19 or suspected Covid-19 and that around 47% of acute hospital beds remained empty.

At the time he gave the figures last week: