The Chinese city of Wuhan is rapidly building a new 1,000-bed hospital to treat victims of a new coronavirus, mobilizing machinery to get it ready by early next week
BEIJING - , state media said.
Most of the cases are in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated late last year. “The construction of this project is to solve the shortage of existing medical resources,” the report said. “Because it will be prefabricated buildings, it will not only be built fast but it also won’t cost much.”
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