Chinese city builds isolation centre with 1,500 rooms in 5 days


n this aerial photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, workers build a large centralised quarantine facility in Shijiazhuang in northern China's Hebei Province. Construction of the first batch of 1,500 rooms for centralised medical observation has been completed in five days in a city in north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said Saturday. - AP

SHIJIAZHUANG, Jan. 16 (Xinhua): Construction of the first batch of 1,500 rooms for centralised medical observation has been completed in five days in a city in north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said Saturday.

The center, using the land of a factory, is among the makeshift facilities with a total of 6,500 rooms planned to be urgently built at six locations in the city of Nangong to cut the spread of Covid-19.

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