New Delhi (NVI): The Chinese city of Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, has begun the task of building a 1,000-bed hospital in just 10 days to treat victims of the epidemic.
The facility, built specifically to contain and treat the virus, will be a prefabricated structure on a 25,000- square-metre (270,000-square-foot) lot, slated for completion by February 3, Xinhua news agency reported.
Authorities said the facility would be based on the Xiaotangshan hospital site near Beijing, which began as a 1,000-bed field hospital during the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003 which killed some 800 people.
Building machinery, including 35 diggers and 10 bulldozers, arrived at the Wuhan site, with the aim of getting the new facility ready by February 3, state media reported.
Currently, novel coronavirus patients are being treated in several designated hospitals and 61 fever clinics in Wuhan.
