Construction of the ACT’s temporary COVID-19 Surge Centre was completed on Garran Oval on 15th May 2020, just five weeks from the project’s start date. Local company Aspen Medical, was contracted by the ACT Government to build and operate the 51-bed / 200 staff facility in early April when concerns were high that the current hospital system would be overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases if the virus spread through the Canberra population. 

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