Coronavirus outbreak: Hospital to be built in five days as death toll rises in China – By Sunita Patel-Carstairs (Sky News) / Jan 24 2020
The number of people killed by the deadly virus rises to 26 and the number of confirmed cases now stands at 830.
China is building a new 1,000-bed hospital in five days to treat victims of the new deadly coronavirus.
Work has started on the building in the central city of Wuhan – the epicentre of the outbreak – in the style of a facility Beijing constructed during the SARS epidemic 17 years ago.
Machinery including 35 diggers and 10 bulldozers arrived at the site on Thursday night, with the aim of it being ready by Monday.
“The construction of this project is to solve the shortage of existing medical resources,” the official Changjiang Daily reported.
“Because it will be prefabricated buildings, it will not only be built fast but it also won’t cost much.”
It comes as the coronavirus death toll in China increased to 26 and the number of confirmed cases to 880.
Lockdowns to contain the new virus have been extended to at least 10 cities in Hubei province, effectively isolating 33 million people.
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