The cities are Wuhan, where the illness has been concentrated, and nine of its neighbours in central China’s Hubei province. “To address the insufficiency of existing medical resources,” Wuhan authorities said in a Friday notice, the city is constructing a hospital modelled after the Xiaotangshan SARS hospital in Beijing. Wuhan hospitals requesting supplies In China, normally bustling streets, malls and other public spaces were eerily quiet in Wuhan on the second day of its lockdown. Administrators at Wuhan University People’s Hospital set up a group chat on the popular WeChat messaging app to co-ordinate donations. Chinatopix via The Associated Press via CP Workers on Friday are swiftly trying to build a new 1,000 bed hospital dedicated to patients infected with a new coronavirus in Wuhan, China.

Source: Huffington Post January 24, 2020 12:50 UTC