By AFP
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12 hours earlier in Sports
With the city’s hospitals under growing pressure, hundreds of beds are to be set up in the 80,000 capacity stadium that was utilized for the 1987 World Cup final.
The beds will be put in galleries around the seating and not on the pitch that was last used by India for a day-night Test against Bangladesh last November.
The arena is also utilized by the Kolkata Knight Riders Indian Premier League side however this year’s competition has actually been repeatedly delayed because of the pandemic.
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