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		</div><p>The first patients have arrived at a 1,000-bed hospital built in 10 days as part of China’s efforts to fight a new virus.</p>
<p>Huoshenshan Hospital and a second facility with 1,500 beds that is due to open this week were built by construction crews who are working around the clock in Wuhan, the city in central China where the coronavirus outbreak was first detected in December.</p>
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<p>Most of the city’s 11 million people are barred from leaving the area.</p>
<p>The Wuhan treatment centres mark the second time Chinese leaders have responded to a new disease by building specialised hospitals almost overnight.</p>
<p>As severe acute respiratory syndrome, or Sars, spread in 2003, a facility in Beijing for patients with that viral disease was constructed in a week.</p>
<figure id="attachment_148891" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-148891" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-148891" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/86B98F10-D016-449E-8FF9-1D0836B0A929.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-148891" class="wp-caption-text">Zhou Xianwang, left, the mayor of Wuhan, exchanges documents with Bai Zhongbin, right, deputy commander-in-chief of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Joint Logistic Support Force, during a handover ceremony at the Huoshenshan temporary field hospital</figcaption></figure>
<p>The first patients arrived at the Huoshenshan Hospital on Monday, according to state media.</p>
<p>The reports gave no details of the patients’ identities or conditions.</p>
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<p>The ruling Communist Party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, sent 1,400 doctors, nurses and other personnel to staff the Wuhan hospital, the official Xinhua News Agency said.</p>
<p>The government said earlier some have experience fighting Sars and other outbreaks.</p>
<figure id="attachment_148894" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-148894" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-148894" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/4BA3EDC2-DAC9-4869-8CFF-933F68CBAC98.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-148894" class="wp-caption-text">An isolation unit in the hospital</figcaption></figure>
<p>Authorities have cut most road, rail and air access to Wuhan and surrounding cities, isolating some 50 million people, in efforts to contain the viral outbreak that has sickened more than 17,000 and killed more than 360 people.</p>
<p>The Huoshenshan Hospital was built by a 7,000-member crew of carpenters, plumbers, electricians and other specialists, according to the Xinhua News Agency.</p>
<p>Photos in state media showed workers in winter clothing, safety helmets and the surgical-style masks worn by millions of Chinese in an attempt to avoid contracting the virus.</p>
<figure id="attachment_148890" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-148890" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-148890" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/C0597EEA-1470-4E1F-AE35-7EB690A9CB5D.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-148890" class="wp-caption-text">A Chinese army medic looks at a patient room at the Huoshenshan temporary field hospital in Wuhan</figcaption></figure>
<p>About half of the two-story, 60,000-square-metre building is isolation wards, according to the government newspaper Yangtze Daily.</p>
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<p>It has 30 intensive care units.</p>
<p>Doctors can talk with outside experts over a video system that links them to Beijing’s PLA General Hospital, according to the Yangtze Daily.</p>
<p>It said the system was installed in less than 12 hours by a 20-member “commando team” from Wuhan Telecom Ltd.</p>
<p>The building has specialised ventilation systems and double-sided cabinets that connect patient rooms to hallways and allow hospital staff to deliver supplies without entering the rooms.</p>
<p>The hospital received a donation of “medical robots” from a Chinese company for use in delivering medicines and carrying test samples, according to the Shanghai newspaper The Paper.</p>
<figure id="attachment_148892" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-148892" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-148892" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/3DA7F723-75E2-4C0B-9A18-FDA754E1B92F.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="432" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-148892" class="wp-caption-text">Journalists take photos of the nameplate at the Huoshenshan temporary field hospital</figcaption></figure>
<p>In other cities, the government has designated hospitals to handle cases of the new virus.</p>
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<p>In Beijing, the Xiaotangshan Hospital built in 2003 for Sars is being renovated by construction workers.</p>
<p>The government has yet to say whether it might be used for patients with the new disease.</p>
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