DALIAN, China -- A new 1,600-bed hospital opened Wednesday in Wuhan after just 10 days of construction, but the Chinese city of 11 million people at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak is still struggling to keep up with a rapid surge in patients.
The Leishenshan Hospital and the Huoshenshan Hospital, completed Sunday with 1,000 beds, were modeled after a hospital built in Beijing in a week in 2003 in the midst of the SARS outbreak. While severe acute respiratory syndrome had infected more than 8,000 people, this new coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, has sickened more than 24,000 people -- mostly in mainland China.
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