The Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro is one of many sporting venues across the world being used as medical centres in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The venue, which staged the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies in 2016, is set to have a field hospital to host patients carrying the virus.
The facility, built in the car park surrounding the 80,000 capacity stadium, will have 400 beds and be one of eight temporary facilities set up across Rio de Janeiro.
The Maracana is one of several stadiums being used across Brazil. The Pacaembu stadium in Sao Paulo has started building a field hospital on the pitch where Corinthians and Santos often play and the National stadium in Brasilia is being similarly utilised.
Elsewhere, the athletes' village used for the 2019 Pan-American Games in Peru has been converted into a coronavirus medical facility, while the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, the athletics venue for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, is set to be converted into a quarantine facility.
