China opens virus hospital, market plunges as toll grows
Source: AP
By KEN MORITSUGU
BEIJING (AP) China sent medical workers and equipment to a new hospital built in 10 days, infused cash into tumbling financial markets and further restricted peoples movement in sweeping new steps Monday to contain a rapidly spreading virus and its escalating impact.
Health authorities released updated figures of 361 deaths and 17,205 confirmed cases, an increase of 2,829 over a 24-hour period, as other countries continued evacuating citizens from hardest-hit Hubei province and restricted the entry of Chinese or people who recently traveled in the country. The World Health Organization said the number of cases will keep growing because tests are pending on thousands of suspected cases.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, presiding over a special meeting of the countrys top Communist Party body for the second time since the crisis started, said we have launched a peoples war of prevention of the epidemic.
Snip: In a sign of the economic toll of the outbreak, Chinas Shanghai Composite index plunged nearly 8% on the first day of trading after the Lunar New Year holiday. That despite a central bank announcement Sunday that it was putting 1.2 trillion yuan ($173 billion) into the markets.
The Huoshenshan temporary field hospital under construction is seen as it nears completion in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020. The Philippines on Sunday reported the first death from a new virus outside of China, where authorities delayed the opening of schools in the worst-hit province and tightened quarantine measures in a city that allow only one family member to venture out to buy supplies. (Chinatopix via AP)
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cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)2naSalit
(86,031 posts)It's a city! And I saw video last week where there were earth movers there, went up really fast.
usaf-vet
(6,092 posts)Javaman
(62,435 posts)I work in the architecture industry and the company I work for specializes in hospitals.
this is a warehouse to house sick people. it's not a hospital by any stretch of the imagination.
it's a concentration camp, see all the bars on the window? they are sending people there to die. same thing as the infamous hospital they built during SARS.
it is not big deal to speed up building when you have the men and money but i don't think they can stock/produce needed breathing devices for everyone as that is how this virus kill you. it wrecks havoc on the entire lungs
Javaman
(62,435 posts)they need to move huge amounts of people to areas away from the "none infected". so they throw up these horrible disease factories as a show and call them hospitals.
this will only make things worse.
Blues Heron
(5,898 posts)Tired of the knee-jerk China bashing on here. Remember Katrina - that's the level we'll get here - there won't be any field hospitals built overnight.
Javaman
(62,435 posts)and no, I'm not "bashing china" which I could go on lengths about their human rights record but I won't.
And as I have stated, this according to china, not me, is a hospital, which is so so very not.
this is barely even a "field hospital". this is just a glorified warehouse to put sick people in.
and since I live in a Democracy (such as it still is) can can bash a communist (more kleptocracy now) nation all I want. you know, freedom of speech and all that. something that is not allowed in china.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)regardless of the shape or how fast it was setup just like how the M*A*S*H units during the Korean War were hospitals albeit crude ones.
Javaman
(62,435 posts)that's all this is. if they are trying to provide care, great for them, but this is not a hospital.
a concrete foundation for something this large takes weeks to properly cure. given the temp and the rain, I seriously doubt that it has time to do that.
at best, in about a year, that concrete will turn to crumbly crap.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)can be used for the flooring.
Javaman
(62,435 posts)more over, fast setting concrete doesn't do will with thick slabs.
you have to use a fibrous concrete to make that happen and given china's history with building collapses, I seriously doubt for something this quick they would go to the expense of using something as expensive as fibrous concrete.
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lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)So this hospital they built in 10 days... is already 20 x too small....
They better start 20 more of them... and since we are talking 10 days to build... maybe 100 more of them.