Whatever Happened To ... The Instant Hospitals Built For COVID-19 Patients In Wuhan?
4 years, 4 months ago

Whatever Happened To ... The Instant Hospitals Built For COVID-19 Patients In Wuhan?

NPR  

The Instant Hospitals Built For COVID-19 Patients In Wuhan? Enlarge this image toggle caption Stringer/Getty Images Stringer/Getty Images In February, China pulled off an impressive construction feat that caught the world's attention: Amid surging cases of COVID-19, China built two hospitals in the pandemic's epicenter, Wuhan, in under two weeks to isolate and treat COVID-19 patients. Enlarge this image toggle caption Barcroft Media via Getty Images Barcroft Media via Getty Images The vigorous efforts seem to have worked, because just a month later, on March 10, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that the disease had been "basically curbed" in Wuhan and its province, Hubei. Huoshenshan and Leishenshan continued operating for another month, after which they sent their final batch of patients to regular hospitals and were officially sealed off and "retired" on April 15. In 2010, the government announced that the facility would be demolished, but apparently, it wasn't "completely demolished," because in January 2020, renovations began to revitalize Xiaotangshan for COVID-19 patients.

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’Not afraid of the virus’: Wuhan turns page on Covid, three years on
1 year, 11 months ago

’Not afraid of the virus’: Wuhan turns page on Covid, three years on

Live Mint  

Residents of China's Wuhan said Monday they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19, three years after the city was locked down over what was then a mysterious virus. But life is now back to normal for many across the globe and after almost three years of gruelling lockdowns and mandatory mass testing, Beijing last month …

Viral Video: COVID-19 patients in China receive treatment on street outside hospital in Beijing
2 years ago

Viral Video: COVID-19 patients in China receive treatment on street outside hospital in Beijing

Firstpost  

The footage opens on a street in front of the hospital. Some senior citizens were also present among them China has been going through a turbulent situation after COVID cases in the country surged dramatically since December. A Twitter user named Jennifer Zeng dropped the clip on her personal Twitter handle, where a number of coronavirus patients can be spotted …

Shanghai releases thousands of recovered COVID-19 patients from hospitals, but infection numbers keep rising
2 years, 8 months ago

Shanghai releases thousands of recovered COVID-19 patients from hospitals, but infection numbers keep rising

Firstpost  

The sudden rise of cases has led to the much-criticised lockdown of the city of 26 million people amid public criticism of the separation of children from parents in hospitals and testing centres as well distribution of food supplies to the people who were confined for days to the apartment blocks Beijing: Shanghai, which is reeling under a massive outbreak …

As cases surge, Hong Kong to build Wuhan-style hospital
2 years, 10 months ago

As cases surge, Hong Kong to build Wuhan-style hospital

The Hindu  

With a record 3,000 COVID-19 cases reported on Sunday, Hong Kong is rushing to build a Wuhan-style temporary hospital as its healthcare infrastructure faces a surge that experts said is likely to overwhelm its already stretched capacity. The current wave has posed the biggest challenge yet to Hong Kong’s “zero COVID” strategy, which had, since the first wave in early …

First known Covid-19 case was vendor in China's animal market in Wuhan: Study
3 years, 1 month ago

First known Covid-19 case was vendor in China's animal market in Wuhan: Study

India Today  

The first confirmed case of symptomatic Covid-19 can be traced to a female seafood vendor at a wholesale food market in China's Wuhan, not an accountant who lived far away, according to a new study which points out that the WHO inquiry into the origins of the deadly disease may have got the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. “His …

Asia Today: Officials: No more hospitalized Wuhan patients
4 years, 8 months ago

Asia Today: Officials: No more hospitalized Wuhan patients

Associated Press  

BANGKOK — Wuhan, the city at the center of China’s coronavirus outbreak, has no more hospitalized patients after the last 12 were discharged, the Hubei province health commission said. In other developments in the Asia-Pacific region: — THAILAND CASES DWINDLE: Thai health authorities on Monday reported the country’s lowest number of new cases of the coronavirus in more than six …

Last coronavirus patients released from hospital in Wuhan, where pandemic began
4 years, 8 months ago

Last coronavirus patients released from hospital in Wuhan, where pandemic began

LA Times  

Wuhan, the city at the center of China’s coronavirus outbreak, has no more hospitalized COVID-19 patients after the last 12 were discharged Sunday, the Hubei province health commission said. With the easing of the crisis, a central government team that had overseen the response in Hubei since late January departed Monday, the official New China News Agency said. Also Monday, …

China: Covid-19 cases in Wuhan hospitals drop to zero for 1st time, says official
4 years, 8 months ago

China: Covid-19 cases in Wuhan hospitals drop to zero for 1st time, says official

India Today  

The number of hospitalised Covid-19 patients in China's Wuhan, where the virus first emerged before turning out to be a pandemic, on Sunday dropped to zero for the first time, marking yet another milestone for the city which was opened up on April 8 after a 76-day lockdown. The last patient in Wuhan was cured on Friday, reducing the number …

Wuhan has NO critically ill coronavirus patient left, China claims
4 years, 8 months ago

Wuhan has NO critically ill coronavirus patient left, China claims

Daily Mail  

China has claimed that all of the critically ill coronavirus patients in the city of Wuhan have recovered. A staff member is pictured on April 14 spraying disinfectant on empty beds after all patients left Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan Mi Feng, a spokesperson from the Chinese Centre of Disease Prevention and Control, announced the news at a press conference today. …

Fewer virus deaths easy to explain
4 years, 8 months ago

Fewer virus deaths easy to explain

China Daily  

A patient surnamed Liu who had severe symptoms of COVID-19 wrote a letter to the medical staff in his intensive care unit on April 20, 2020 to express his gratitude for their efforts to bring him back to life. Government efforts, cooperation of people make big difference in results The relatively low death toll of the novel coronavirus in China …

Fewer virus deaths easy to explain
4 years, 8 months ago

Fewer virus deaths easy to explain

China Daily  

A patient surnamed Liu who had severe symptoms of COVID-19 wrote a letter to the medical staff in his intensive care unit on April 20, 2020 to express his gratitude for their efforts to bring him back to life. Government efforts, cooperation of people make big difference in results The relatively low death toll of the novel coronavirus in China …

Report: China's fight against COVID-19 (full text)
4 years, 8 months ago

Report: China's fight against COVID-19 (full text)

China Daily  

Treatment plans and scientific research The sudden outbreak of the epidemic put an overwhelming burden on medical resources and led to treatment delays. — Patients with serious and mild symptoms were separated, and a diverse treatment network of makeshift hospitals and designated hospitals was established. Through centralized isolation and treatment for patients with mild symptoms, the makeshift hospitals, an important …

COVID-19: China shuts down largest makeshift hospital in Wuhan
4 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19: China shuts down largest makeshift hospital in Wuhan

The Hindu  

As the number of coronavirus cases abates, China on Wednesday shutdown one of its largest makeshift hospitals built in February to treat the surging COVID-19 infections in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic, as the last group of thousands of medical workers deployed to fight the outbreak also left the city. Interactive map of confirmed coronavirus cases in India The …

WHDZ hospitals open for non-COVID-19 patients
4 years, 9 months ago

WHDZ hospitals open for non-COVID-19 patients

China Daily  

A total of 61 hospitals in Wuhan, capital of Central China’s Hubei province, have resumed routine medical operations and are open for non-COVID-19 patients, with three based in the Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone, according to the official WeChat account of the WHDZ. The three hospitals are Hannan Renmin Hospital, Wuhan Asia General Hospital and Hannan Traditional Chinese Medicine …

Coronavirus: how hostels and hotels can be turned into makeshift hospitals
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: how hostels and hotels can be turned into makeshift hospitals

The Hindu  

In early February this year, as doctors in Wuhan were grappling with the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese engineers sprung into action to build a 1,000-bed hospital in all of ten days. SN Subrahmanyan, CEO and MD, Larsen and Toubro, announced this week that the construction company could build a hospital from scratch in record time, and also convert existing structures such …

Makeshift hospital: An effective way to treat COVID-19 patients
4 years, 9 months ago

Makeshift hospital: An effective way to treat COVID-19 patients

China Daily  

A worker disinfects the makeshift hospital built at from Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, on Mar 8. In early February, to alleviate a shortage of hospital beds in Wuhan, epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, authorities decided to convert public facilities such as conference venues and sports stadiums into temporary hospitals to accommodate COVID-19 …

Makeshift hospital's closing marks Traditional Chinese Medicine's effectiveness
4 years, 10 months ago

Makeshift hospital's closing marks Traditional Chinese Medicine's effectiveness

China Daily  

Zhang Boli, 72, from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine visits medical workers at Jiangxia Hospital, a makeshift facility in Wuhan operated by TCM professionals in Central China's Hubei province, on March 10, 2020. Wuhan's first and only traditional Chinese medicine makeshift hospital closed on Tuesday. During the 26-day operation that began …

Makeshift hospital's closing marks Traditional Chinese Medicine's effectiveness
4 years, 10 months ago

Makeshift hospital's closing marks Traditional Chinese Medicine's effectiveness

China Daily  

Zhang Boli, 72, from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine visits medical workers at Jiangxia Hospital, a makeshift facility in Wuhan operated by TCM professionals in Central China's Hubei province, on March 10, 2020. Wuhan's first and only traditional Chinese medicine makeshift hospital closed on Tuesday. During the 26-day operation that began …

Wuhan doctor recounts fears and hope at coronavirus frontline
4 years, 10 months ago

Wuhan doctor recounts fears and hope at coronavirus frontline

Hindustan Times  

One month after makeshift hospitals opened to chaos and confusion at the epicentre of China’s coronavirus epidemic, frontline doctor Ma Yonggang is finally seeing more empty beds as fewer patients arrive. “Now, we admit very few new patients and about three to four recovered patients are discharged each day.” The situation Ma described tallies with officials’ accounts of a slowdown …

COVID-19 | Wuhan closes makeshift hospital as new cases in China drop sharply
4 years, 10 months ago

COVID-19 | Wuhan closes makeshift hospital as new cases in China drop sharply

The Hindu  

The Chinese city at the centre of the SARS-nCOV epidemic closed its first makeshift hospital, one of 16 hurriedly built to handle the epidemic, after it discharged the last recovered patients, state broadcaster CCTV reported on March 2. China’s central Hubei province, the epicentre of the country’s the SARS-nCOV outbreak, reported less than 200 cases of new infections for the …

Wuhan closes makeshift hospital as new coronavirus cases in China drop sharply
4 years, 10 months ago

Wuhan closes makeshift hospital as new coronavirus cases in China drop sharply

India Today  

The Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus epidemic closed its first makeshift hospital, one of 16 hurriedly built to handle the epidemic, after it discharged the last recovered patients, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday. China’s central Hubei province, the epicenter of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, reported less than 200 cases of new infections for the first time …

Coronavirus: Life in a Wuhan suburb besieged by China’s deadly outbreak
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus: Life in a Wuhan suburb besieged by China’s deadly outbreak

The Independent  

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COVID-19: Wuhan doctor who postponed wedding to treat patients dies
4 years, 10 months ago

COVID-19: Wuhan doctor who postponed wedding to treat patients dies

The Hindu  

A 29-year-old Chinese doctor, who postponed his wedding to treat patients infected with the deadly coronavirus, has died treating them after being infected by the virus, the ninth fatality among the healthcare providers working to contain the outbreak. Dr. Peng Yinhua, doctor of a Wuhan hospital who treated patients infected with the coronavirus, died on Thursday night, according to the …

Wuhan hospital director dies of COVID-19
4 years, 10 months ago

Wuhan hospital director dies of COVID-19

The Hindu  

The head of a leading hospital in China's central city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak, died of COVID-19 on Tuesday, state television said, becoming the second prominent Chinese doctor to have succumbed to the outbreak. Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital, died at 10:30 a.m., it said. On Monday night, the Communist Party propaganda department …

Hospital director dies of coronavirus in Wuhan as China designates dead nurses and doctors as ‘martyrs’
4 years, 10 months ago

Hospital director dies of coronavirus in Wuhan as China designates dead nurses and doctors as ‘martyrs’

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — The death toll from the novel coronavirus has reached 1,873, as almost half of China’s 1.3 billion-strong population remain subject to varying forms of travel restrictions and other quarantine measures. Also on Tuesday, state media reported that doctors and nurses who die while trying to contain the outbreak will officially be designated as “martyrs.” All but …

Wuhan coronavirus death toll tops 900 as China cautiously returns to work
4 years, 11 months ago

Wuhan coronavirus death toll tops 900 as China cautiously returns to work

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — Millions of people across China are heading back to work after the Lunar New Year break turned into an extended quarantine due to the Wuhan coronavirus. A team of doctors and researchers from the World Health Organization left for China on Sunday to assist with the outbreak, led by Bruce Aylward, who the organization’s Director-General Tedros …

Wuhan coronavirus lockdown: Anxiety and empty shelves in outbreak epicenter
4 years, 11 months ago

Wuhan coronavirus lockdown: Anxiety and empty shelves in outbreak epicenter

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — It has been three weeks since Wu Chen went into self-enforced quarantine in his Wuhan apartment, with only his cat, Baozi, for company. “The issue is the fact I need to register him as a US citizen but I couldn’t do because of the lockdown,” he told CNN from his Wuhan apartment. “I couldn’t get everything …

Chinese doctor who sounded the alarm about the virus dies
4 years, 11 months ago

Chinese doctor who sounded the alarm about the virus dies

Associated Press  

BEIJING — A Chinese doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak died Friday after coming down with the illness. The Wuhan Central Hospital said on its social media account that Dr. Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist, was “unfortunately infected during the fight against the pneumonia epidemic of …

In Quarantined Wuhan, Hospital Beds For Coronavirus Patients Are Scarce
4 years, 11 months ago

In Quarantined Wuhan, Hospital Beds For Coronavirus Patients Are Scarce

NPR  

In Quarantined Wuhan, Hospital Beds For Coronavirus Patients Are Scarce Enlarge this image toggle caption Xiao Yijiu/AP Xiao Yijiu/AP Updated at 7:19 p.m. Hospitals are so full that without an official coronavirus diagnosis, Wuhan residents say they cannot get care, leaving those with potentially fatal cases of seasonal pneumonia and influenza untreated. Enlarge this image toggle caption Xiong Qi/AP Xiong …

Coronavirus: China converts an exhibition hall into a makeshift hospital in Wuhan
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus: China converts an exhibition hall into a makeshift hospital in Wuhan

The Hindu  

Hundreds of empty beds lined an exhibition centre converted into a makeshift hospital at the epicentre of China’s deadly virus epidemic on Tuesday, awaiting coronavirus patients. State media said the converted exhibition centre, along with a nearby gymnasium, will house an extra 3,400 beds and provide “emergency treatment and clinical testing” for those infected with the virus in Wuhan. In …

Coronavirus outbreak: Wuhan to convert gym, exhibition centre into temporary hospitals
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus outbreak: Wuhan to convert gym, exhibition centre into temporary hospitals

India TV News  

The Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak, has planned to convert three existing venues, including a gymnasium and an exhibition centre, into hospitals to receive more patients as the death toll in the Asian giant due to the disease increased to 425. The Hongshan Gymnasium, Wuhan International Conference and Exhibition Centre and a cultural building …

Coronavirus wrap: Chinese doctor who first warned about virus outbreak dies
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus wrap: Chinese doctor who first warned about virus outbreak dies

Business Standard  

The death toll from the novel coronavirus in China jumped to 564 on Thursday, its third straight record daily rise, as experts intensified efforts to find a vaccine for a disease that has shut down Chinese cities, forced thousands into quarantine around the world and is also expected to have an impact on the global economy. Seventy new deaths were …

China builds 1,000-bed hospital in 10 days in Wuhan as Coronavirus patients toll surges
4 years, 11 months ago

China builds 1,000-bed hospital in 10 days in Wuhan as Coronavirus patients toll surges

India TV News  

China completed building a 1,000-bed hospital for treating victims of a new virus that has caused 362 deaths and more than 17,000 infections at home and abroad, according to the latest figures Monday. 361 deaths so far; 2,829 new cases in last 24 hours in China China’s new totals of 361 deaths and 2,829 new cases over the last 24 …

In Pictures: Inside Wuhan’s fast-built hospital
4 years, 11 months ago

In Pictures: Inside Wuhan’s fast-built hospital

Al Jazeera  

Built in little over a week, a hospital dedicated to treating people infected with a deadly new coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan began receiving patients on Monday, state media said. The 1,000-bed facility was designed for patients with confirmed infections to ease a shortage of beds elsewhere in Wuhan, where the rapidly-spreading virus is thought to have originated …

China completes coronavirus hospital in Wuhan in 10 days, with a second hospital almost finished
4 years, 11 months ago

China completes coronavirus hospital in Wuhan in 10 days, with a second hospital almost finished

ABC  

China has completed the construction of an emergency hospital at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak within 10 days, Chinese state media say. Key points: The project has been called "mission impossible" due to the timeframe Construction was live-streamed around the clock on China's state broadcasters The rapid number of infections has placed pressure on the country's medical facilities The …

Coronvirus: Built in 10 days, China's 1000-bed hospital opens. Takes 1st patients
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronvirus: Built in 10 days, China's 1000-bed hospital opens. Takes 1st patients

India Today  

The first patients arrived Monday at a 1,000-bed hospital built in 10 days as part of China's efforts to fight a new virus. 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 outbreak …

‘Utter chaos’: Coronavirus exposes China healthcare weaknesses
4 years, 11 months ago

‘Utter chaos’: Coronavirus exposes China healthcare weaknesses

Al Jazeera  

With more people infected with the coronavirus than had been with SARS, China’s healthcare system is feeling the strain. As thousands, if not tens of thousands, of fever patients who fear they might have caught the novel coronavirus that has now killed more than 100 people rush to Wuhan’s hospitals, the outbreak is testing China’s healthcare system on a scale …

China is aiming to build a hospital in Wuhan inside a week to treat coronavirus patients. Here's how
4 years, 11 months ago

China is aiming to build a hospital in Wuhan inside a week to treat coronavirus patients. Here's how

ABC  

Chinese construction workers are labouring around the clock to build a new hospital to treat victims of the new coronavirus outbreak. Chinese construction workers get to work en masse at Wuhan's new hospital project. China's Xinhua news agency said the new facility aimed to "alleviate the shortage of medical treatment resources and improve the ability to care for patients". Yanzhong …

Video: China building a separate hospital for treating coronavirus patients. And it's a race
4 years, 11 months ago

Video: China building a separate hospital for treating coronavirus patients. And it's a race

India TV News  

In order to contain the deadly virus, China is building a special 1,000-bed hospital in Wuhan for treating coronavirus patients. The Wuhan local government is rushing to build a 1,000-bedded hospital in the outskirts of Wuhan to treat the patients.​ The 2019 novel coronavirus appears to have symptoms similar to those of severe acute respiratory syndrome and may be capable …

Wuhan coronavirus: Death toll rises to 56
4 years, 11 months ago

Wuhan coronavirus: Death toll rises to 56

CNN  

Beijing CNN — The death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus in China continues rising as authorities and health care workers struggle to contain the outbreak. Lunar New Year celebrations – the country’s most important holiday – have been greatly impacted in Beijing, Hong Kong and other major cities due to the virus. In Wuhan, ground zero for the virus, four …

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