Mexico converts F1 racetrack, military barracks to coronavirus hospitals

Mexico has repurposed a Formula One racetrack, converted a huge convention center and put hundreds of beds into military barracks to create new hospital space to ease the strain on its health system in the mounting coronavirus pandemic.

Mexico’s coronavirus death toll has leapt 14-fold since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador first declared the country had “tamed” the pandemic on April 26.

Mexico has logged almost 160,000 cases and more than 19,000 fatalities, the seventh-highest total worldwide.

To prevent the system from collapsing, authorities in the epicenter of . . .