JUST IN: China's 1,000-bed coronavirus hospital built in 10 days opens its doors, state media says.
China's state news agency Xinhua reported Sunday the new hospital has a capacity for 1,000 beds, intensive care units and sections for diagnosis and infection control.
Hundreds of doctors and medical personnel have been drafted in from China's military to treat patients at the hospital, Xinhua also said.have worked in the past to treat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , which the novel coronavirus is related to, and the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the agency added.Project manager Fang Xiang whose team worked on the hospital was quoted by China Central Television Monday as saying that a project of this scale usually takes at least two years.
"It takes at least a month to construct a temporary building, not to mention a new hospital for infectious diseases," he said,China's state CGTN network showed a video of several workers who said they slept only two hours in three days while completing the construction of the hospital. It’s not the first time China has had to build a specialized medical facility on a tight deadline. During the SARS epidemic in 2003, a hospital in Beijing was constructed in just a week.
for nearly two weeks with millions of its inhabitants barred from leaving the city. The Chinese government has not yet signaled when the lockdown could be lifted.
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