Xi inspects coronavirus-treating hospital in Beijing

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, having video calls to hospitals in Wuhan receiving patients in severe condition and hearing reports from the central guiding team at the Beijing Ditan Hospital in Beijing,on Monday (Feb 10). - Xinhua/ANN

BEIJING: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspected the Beijing Ditan Hospital, a designated institution treating the novel coronavirus pneumonia, on Monday (Feb 10).

Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, learned about the treatment of infected patients and made video calls to hospitals in Wuhan receiving patients with severe conditions, heard reports from the central guiding team in Hubei Province and the provincial headquarters on the prevention and control of the epidemic, and extended regards to medical workers on the frontline.