China builds a new hospital to treat Corona patients in just five days
On Saturday, China completed the construction of a 1,500-room hospital for Corona patients within 5 days, to combat the increase in infections in a city south of Beijing.
The official Chinese news agency "Xinhua" said that the hospital is one of 6 hospitals with a total of 6,500 rooms being built in Nangong, Hebei Province.
All are due to be completed within the next week.
China, which has contained the spread of the Coronavirus to a large extent, has suffered hundreds of infections this month in Nangong and Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei, southwest of the Chinese capital.
The ruling Communist Party launched a similar program to build hospitals quickly at the beginning of the outbreak last year, in order to establish isolation hospitals in Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus that was first discovered in late 2019.
Nationwide, the National Health Commission recorded 130 new confirmed cases within the 24 hours to midnight Friday, 90 of them in Hebei.
"Xinhua" reported that there are 645 cases, two of them coming from abroad, that are being treated in Nangong and Shijiazhuang.
