The seemingly improvised steps were announced by the top official leading the response to the virus as she visited Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak. The Wuhan City Central Hospital said in a posting on its social media account that its efforts to save the doctor, Li Wenliang, had failed. Some comments on Chinese social media compared the scenes with those from the Spanish flu pandemic, the deadliest in modern history. “You can’t manage that great a surge of patients for an extended period of time.”But Schaffner also raised questions about the new steps, including risks to both coronavirus patients and their caregivers in makeshift quarantine shelters. A widely shared post on Weibo, a popular social media site, said Thursday that “conditions were very poor” at the Wuhan exhibition centre that has been converted into a quarantine facility.

Source: bd News24 February 07, 2020 03:22 UTC