China is building two hospitals at lightning speed to help treat the thousands in Wuhan infected with the 2019-nCoV coronavirus — and people can watch them being built in real time on the above livestream. LIVE NEWS UPDATES on the Wuhan coronavirusConstruction started on Jan. 23 and four companies are working around the clock to build the two structures. The two hospitals will be used to treat the thousands of people at the outbreak’s epicentre, where medical supplies and resources are running scarce. The designs for the Wuhan hospitals are based on one constructed in Beijing within one week to treat SARS patients in 2003. “Since that’s its only purpose, it is not a hospital in the conventional sense,” Crispino said.

Source: National Post January 31, 2020 19:07 UTC