China building 1,000 bed hospital in 6 days for coronavirus patients

Chinese city of Wuhan has started to build a hospital with for 1,000 beds to treat patients infected with dely coronavirus, Chinese state media reported. Till w, virus has claimed lives of 25 and infected more than 800 people.

Building machinery alrey on site

According to municipal authorities, hospital will be erected on a 25,000-square-metre lot and is scheduled for completion by February 3. All building machinery including 35 diggers and 10 bulldozers arrived at site on Thursday night, with aim to get new facility rey by next Monday, media reported. 

new hospital is being built around a holiday complex which was originally intended for local workers on outskirts of city. Earlier today, China State Construction Engineering one of companies building hospital said that it was doing all it could to play its part ding that it alrey h more than 100 workers on site. style of facility is similar to one constructed in Beijing constructed during epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, an outbreak of 2003. 

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Meanwhile, Wuhan, epidemic centre of a new virus, has designated seven hospitals to concentrate infected patients, China's state brocaster CCTV said on Friday. CCTV foot showed patients being transported by ambulance from Wuhan's Union Hospital to one of designated hospitals. China broened its unprecedented, open-ended lockdowns to encompass around 25 million people on Friday to try to contain dely pathogen that has sickened hundreds. At least eight cities have been shut down – Wuhan, Ezhou, Huanggang, Chibi, Qianjiang, Zhejiang, Jingmen and Xiantao – all in central China's Hubei province, where illness has been concentrated. In Beijing, major public events were cancelled, including tritional temple fairs that are a staple of Lunar New Year celebrations.

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