Tehran 3 February _China has finished the construction of an emergency hospital in just eight days in Wuhan, the city at the center of the new Coronovirus outbreak as the epidemic continues to claim more lives and infect more people across the country and beyond its borders.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_Work had begun on the construction of the 1000-bed emergency Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei Province, on January 23, and was completed on Sunday, according to Chinese media.
The hospital is set to receive patients confirmed with the Coronavirus infection from Monday.
The new hospital is one of the two dedicated facilities being constructed to help tackle the viral outbreak, which has infected more than 17,000 people across China — with more than 11,000 cases reported in Hubei Province alone.
The construction of the second hospital in Wuhan is due to be finished on Wednesday.
The never-before-seen virus was first reported in December in a seafood and poultry market in Wuhan, with a population of 11 million people.
According to latest figures from China’s National Health Commission, the infection has killed more than 360 people as of Monday across China.
Authorities sent more than 8,000 medical workers to Hubei to combat the outbreak.
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