Lexington Medical Center is coping with the pandemic.

Beds are available for those who need them, hospital spokesperson Jennifer Wilson reported.

A new triage area has been set up in a tent outside the Emergency Rooms.

When patients arrive at the ER, clinicians meet them outside and ask if they have respiratory symptoms.

If they say “Yes,” they receive a mask and go to the tent for screening.

Then, they enter the ER through a separate hallway away from the rest of the patients in the ER.

The tent area is an extra level of protection to separate patients with respiratory symptoms from those who come to the ER with broken bones, heart attacks, strokes and other issues.

Visitors are no longer allowed with the exception of:

• Obstetrics: Spouse or significant other when the patient is in labor or after.

• Special Care Nursery: 1 birth parent and 1 significant other.

• Procedural Areas: 1 family member in the waiting area with the patient after his or her procedure

• Emergency Department: 1 visitor allowed for pediatric patients only

• End-of-life situations. Approved visitors should use the Main Entrance.

Children younger than 18 years of age cannot visit.

Patients suspected of or who tested positive can have no visitors either.

Ambulatory surgery centers at Lexington and Irmo campuses have been closed.