A luxury hotel in Thailand has devoted all of their 140 rooms to be used for people under COVID-19 quarantine.<br /><br />The Grand Bella Hotel in Pattaya on the country's eastern seaboard has worked with government to use their rooms as a field hospital for coronavirus isolation treatment for free.<br /><br />The hotel manager Morrakot Kuldilok said that the deadly pandemic has decimated number of paying guests - a situation that they don't see improving for several months - so they wanted to do something useful with the building.<br /><br />She said: "We wanted to serve public good amid the pandemic crisis like this. We decided to grant one building for people under covid-19 quarantine. We are giving all room services and charging no fees."<br /><br />The hotel will undergo checks and sanitisation before it is transformed into nursing wards. The building will then be used for people under observation for suspected coronavirus.<br /><br />Thailand currently has 1,978 cases of the coronavirus and 19 deaths, leading to travel bans, lockdowns and curfews across the country.<br /><br />This footage was filmed on March 31.
