Thousands worked to build this coronavirus hospital quickly 😱
Inside the one of the hospitals constructed in 10 days to treat patients with coronavirus The Huoshenshan Hospital, and a second hospital with 1,500 beds due to open this week, were built by construction crews who are working around the clock in Wuhan, where the new coronavirus outbreak started.
About half of the two-storey, 600,000-square-foot building is isolation wards, according to the government newspaper Yangtze Daily. It has 30 intensive care units. The Wuhan treatment centres mark the second time Chinese leaders have responded to a new disease by building specialised hospitals in super-quick time
The Philippine Health Department said a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan, the city at the centre of the crisis, was hospitalised on January 25 with a fever, cough and sore throat and died after developing severe pneumonia.The man’s 38-year-old female companion, also from Wuhan, tested positive for the virus as well and remained hospitalised in isolation in Manila.
Also, six officials in the city of Huanggang, next to Wuhan in Hubei province, were fired over ‘poor performance’ in handling the outbreak, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. With no end in sight to the outbreak, authorities in Hubei and elsewhere have extended the Lunar New Year holiday break, due to end this week, well into February to try to keep people at home and reduce the spread of the virus.
Qatar Airways joined the growing number of airlines suspending flights to mainland China. Indonesia and Oman also halted flights, as did Saudi Arabia’s flagship national carrier, Saudia.
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