BEIJING (AP) — A hotel used for medical observation of people who had contact with coronavirus patients collapsed in southeastern China on Saturday, trapping some 70 people, state media reported. The 80-room hotel had been converted by the city government for observation of people who had contact with virus patients, according to People’s Daily. The hotel opened in June 2018, with rooms on the fourth to seventh floors of the building, the newspaper Beijing Youth Daily said. An unidentified hotel employee cited by the Beijing Youth Daily said the owner carried out ”foundation-related construction" before the disaster. China, where the virus first emerged in December, has confirmed more than 80,000 cases, by far the most in the world.

Source: Daily Sun March 07, 2020 15:45 UTC