Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak In China -- News Updates February 3, 2020

Daily Mail: Pictured: First patients arrive at Wuhan's 1,000-bed coronavirus hospital built from scratch in just TEN DAYS

* Huoshenshan Hospital was completed Sunday after construction workers toiled through Chinese New Year
* Latest footage shows ambulances travelling on Wuhan's deserted roads while transporting its first patients
* The six-acre medical centre is one of two special hospitals planned in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak
* The other emergency facility, Leishenshan Hospital, is due to start treating patients in the city on Thursday
* China's first coronavirus hospital opened last Tuesday in Huanggang city after two days of building works
* Death toll of the deadly disease has soared to 362 after first case of death was reported outside of China

The first dedicated coronavirus hospital in Wuhan has welcomed its first group of patients today after the emergency facility was built from scratch in just 10 days.

Latest footage shows a team of ambulances travelling on the city's deserted roads while transporting the sufferers there tonight.

Construction of Huoshenshan Hospital, a makeshift medical centre with 1,000 beds, was finished yesterday and it is now being run by a group of military medics sent to Wuhan by the central government.

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WNU Editor: Another example on why we should always be skeptical on what China is saying when it comes to the coronavirus epidemic .... Whistleblower is arrested in China after secretly filming ‘piles of body bags at a hospital in coronavirus ground zero Wuhan’ (Daily Mail).

Update: This is what desperation and panic looks like .... Chinese government 'will spray disinfectant on an entire CITY tonight' in a desperate bid to stop the spread of coronavirus which has killed 362 people (Daily Mail).

Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak In China -- News Updates February 3, 2020

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