These are the first pictures of the field hospital wards inside the Principality Stadium.

The home of Welsh rugby has undergone a remarkable transformation into a 2,000-bed field hospital to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

The newly-named Dragon's Heart hospital opened to its first patients on Easter Sunday with 300 beds available for people being treated for coronavirus.

The hospital has been designed and made operational in under two weeks – an unprecedented process that would normally take two years.

And Len Richards, chief executive of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, has tweeted out the first pictures of the makeshift wards and beds.

The images also show the giant tents that have been erected on the pitch to control the temperature within the stadium where up to 700 patients will soon be treated. Around 2,500 staff are expected to be working there when at full capacity.

As well as the pitch area raised platforms will house another 200 patients.

Other huge spaces in the bowels of the stadium are also being used including the home and away dressing rooms, which have already been turned into temporary offices.

More than 18,000 bed pans will need to be emptied every day, 20,000 porter visits will be required daily to different parts of the hospital, three-and-a-half tons of clinical waste will be removed off-site, and hundreds of thousands of litres of oxygen will be brought to the venue.

A mobile CT scanner, four X-ray machines, and a mobile laboratory are all being delivered.

In two weeks the complete 2,000-bed hospital will be fully operational after a mammoth effort involving 5,000 hours of planning and work by around 650 contractors and 30 members of the armed forces who have been helping build beds.