It's been just six days since the start of hospital building tp accommodate Coronavrus patients and seems like construction team are already nearing completion.?
According to reports,?Construction started on Jan. 23 and four companies have been working around the clock to build the two structures.
More than 4,000 workers and 1,000 vehicles have been used to build the Huoshenshan Hospital a sprawling 25,000 sq.-m., with 1,000 beds and Leishenshan Hospital, which is 40 km away,
Livestreaming the construction of the two hospitals has become popular Chinese social media platform and on YouTube.?
China State Construction Engineering, one of the companies building the hospital, told Reuters that it was ¡°doing all it can and would overcome difficulties¡± to play its part, adding it now had more than 100 workers on the site.
Cement mixers have found themselves with nicknames like "The Cement King", "Big White Rabbit" and "The White Roller" and are being hailed as heroes on Chinese social media for their strength and dedication in the construction of the hospitals.
The hospital aims to copy the experience and design of Beijing in 2003 when the city battled Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). As many as 774 people died globally in the SARS epidemic, which reached nearly 30 countries.
At the time, Beijing built the Xiaotangshan hospital in its northern suburbs in just a week. Within two months, it treated one-seventh of all the country¡¯s SARS patients, the Changjiang Daily said.
To save time and money, the hospitals will be built with prefabricated materials, Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, told the BBC.
The coronavirus has now spread to at least 20 countries worldwide and currently 10,000 people in the country infected, and over 200 dead.