A second hospital for coronavirus patients will be built in Wuhan. Construction is planned to be completed in 15 days

A second hospital for those infected with the new coronavirus will be built in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The temporary hospital, designed for 1.3 thousand beds, is planned to be commissioned in 15 days, according to a tweet from the People's Daily.

in Wuhan On January 24, Chinese authorities announced the construction of the first temporary 1,000-bed hospital . It is planned that she will receive the first patients on February 3.

• Temporary hospitals in Wuhan are being built from modular structures. Similar hospitals were built in China during the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003.
• In Wuhan, where the first cases of infection with a new coronavirus were recorded, a quarantine regime was introduced. With the city, whose population is about 11 million people, air and railway communications are interrupted.
• As of January 25, 41 people have died from pneumonia caused by a new type of coronavirus in China. The total number of infected people worldwide has exceeded 1,300. Almost all cases of infection with the new virus have been recorded in China, but cases have also been identified in other countries, including Japan, the United States, South Korea, Thailand, Australia and France.
• due to the coronavirus , extending school holidays and suspending ferry services to mainland China. Authorities in Hong Kong, where five cases have been identified, have declared a state of emergency
• Rospotrebnadzor tested more than 50 people who arrived in Russia for coronavirus, the diagnosis was not confirmed in anyone, Interfax reports , citing the head of the service, Anna Popova.