NSTworld: About 30 people remained trapped early on Sunday after a five-storey hotel being used for coronavirus quarantine collapsed in the southeast Chinese port city of Quanzhou. covid19 Fujian
About four hours after the collapse, the Quanzhou municipality said 38 of the 70 or so people who had been in the Quanzhou Xinjia Hotel had been rescued.
A woman is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Quanzhou, in China's eastern Fujian province. -AFP pic"I was at a gas station and heard a loud noise. I looked up and the whole building collapsed. Dust was everywhere, and glass fragments were flying around," a witness said in a video posted on the Miaopai streaming app.
Quanzhou is a port city on the Taiwan Strait in the province of Fujian with a population of more than 8 million. Rescue workers move casualty on the site where a hotel being used for the coronavirus quarantine collapsed, as the country is hit by the novel coronavirus, in the southeast Chinese port city of Quanzhou, Fujian province. - cnsphoto via REUTERS
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