A tunnel hallway at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, has been fitted with numerous beds and medical equipment to convert the space into a Covid-19 ward in the latest stopgap measure of the authorities to combat the rising number of cases.

A video circulating on WhatsApp depicts the hallway, which connects the hospital’s Emergency Department to its specialist clinics, lined with oxygen tanks and beds occupied by patients.

Malaysiakini understands that the hospital had started referring non-Covid-19 patients to...