Wuhan: A 1,000-bed hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, will begin receiving highly contagious pneumonia patients, less than 10 days after construction began. The new facility will ease the shortage of beds in the city resulting from an increasing number of patients infected with the novel coronavirus. A second special hospital for the treatment of the novel coronavirus – Leishenshan Hospital – is under construction in Wuhan. Fifteen experts from the PLA Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the PLA Academy of Military Science’s Military Medical Institute will join them to offer professional consultation. Xu Ming, a project manager at Wuhan Construction Group, said he has been on duty every day since the project began.

Source: The Star February 04, 2020 01:07 UTC