China has built a hospital dedicated for novel coronavirus patients in 10 days in Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus outbreak in central China’s Hubei Province.
The Huoshenshan Hospital, which was conceived during the spike of novel coronavirus outbreak, was delivered on Sunday, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Around 800 workers raced against time to finish the 1000-bed capacity structure that will serve the confirmed as well suspected cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV ARD)
A total of 1,400 medical staff from the armed forces are tasked with treating patients in Huoshenshan Hospital starting from Monday.
The medics consist of 950 people from hospitals affiliated to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Joint Logistic Support Force, and 450 from medical universities of the army, navy and air force of the PLA who were sent to Wuhan earlier.
As of this posting the virus has killed 362 and has infected 17,238 in mainland China.
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