China has a record for fast feats of engineering, and now workers are labouring around the clock to build a new hospital for coronavirus patients. They could have it finished within a week.
The new coronavirus hospital will probably be put together from prefabricated structures which will have been assembled before arriving on the site.
Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, told the BBC he believed China would be able to get the hospital built within six days."The engineering work is what China is good at. They have records of building skyscrapers at speed. This is very hard for Westerners to imagine. It can be done."
In 2015 Chinese workers erected a 57-storey tower in just 19 days, and in 2018 a time-lapse video released by the Xinhua news agency purported to show 1,500 workers laying the track for a new railway station in southeast China in just nine hours.Right now construction workers are working around the clock at the site in Wuhan's western suburbs.
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