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New hospital ready to fight coronavirus
    2020-02-03  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

APPROVED by Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping, 1,400 medical staff from the armed forces are tasked with treating patients in Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan starting from today.

Huoshenshan Hospital, with a capacity of 1,000 beds, is a makeshift hospital dedicated to treating patients infected with the novel coronavirus.

The medics consist of 950 people from hospitals affiliated to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Joint Logistic Support Force, and 450 from medical universities of the army, navy and air force of the PLA who were sent to Wuhan earlier.

Meanwhile, a joint expert group of 15 people has also been set up to guide the hospital’s epidemic prevention and control on the spot.

Among the military medical staff, many participated in the fight against SARS in Xiaotangshan Hospital in Beijing or in the anti-Ebola mission in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and have rich experience in treating infectious diseases.

As of press time yesterday, China had 14,489 confirmed cases of the virus, with 304 deaths and 416 recoveries.

Thirty-seven patients with the novel coronavirus were discharged from Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital yesterday, marking the largest single number of people discharged from the hospital. Among them, the oldest was 88.

Level 1 emergency response have been activated in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities on the Chinese mainland.

Meanwhile, a specialist known as one of the world’s leading “virus hunters,” is in China, to help contain the coronavirus epidemic.

Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology from Columbia University, is also the director of Columbia’s Center for Infection & Immunity Mailman School of Public Health.

Dr. Lipkin came to China 17 years ago to help fight SARS.

His week-long trip this time included Guangzhou and Beijing, without going to Wuhan. “I’ve not been to Wuhan, I’ll not be able to get back into the U.S. very easily, and that would impede my ability to the work. Although I would like to have gone to Wuhan, unfortunately logistics made that impossible,” he said.(Xinhua-CGTN)

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