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Coronavirus: China opens 1,000-bed hospital after 48 hours of construction [Video]
China’s new 1,000-bed coronavirus hospital has opened in a city near Wuhan where the outbreak of the disease began, just 48 hours after workers converted an empty building.
The Dabie Mountain Regional Medical Centre started receiving patients at 10.30 pm last night, Metro UK reports.
More than 500 construction workers, electricians and police worked around the clock to open the hospital in the Huangzhou District.
It was originally intended to be a hospital that would open in May, but faced with the growing threat of the spread of coronavirus they managed to complete the task much sooner.
Local authorities announced on Friday that the building would be converted and work started on Saturday.
Yesterday, it had water, electricity and internet, ready for patients.
An even more ambitious building project is underway in Wuhan itself where authorities have given a deadline of Monday for another large hospital in the city.
Four hospitals are being built in super-quick time, using pre-fabricated buildings and modelled on a medical centre built in Beijing in 2003 in seven days to tackle SARS.
The death toll in mainland China following the outbreak of coronavirus has risen to 132 while nearly 6,000 people are infected, authorities have said.
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